Abstract

This article discusses Lucie Aubrac's memoir of her life as a résistante and pregnant woman, Ils partiront dans l'ivresse. Aubrac's memoir spans the nine months of her second pregnancy, which also coincided with some of her most dangerous resistance work. This article discusses the ways in which Aubrac employs her pregnancy in the service of literary suspense, while eschewing more traditional discourses of pregnancy. This article discusses the ways in which Aubrac utilizes generic hybridity to portray her wartime experiences without recourse to Vichy stereotypes. In so doing, this article demonstrates the ways in which Ils partiront dans l'ivresse became more than the sum of its parts, and a new genre, the roman à supsense au féminin.

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