Justi-Fiction Exposed: Marie NDiaye and Olivia Rosenthal's Animal Effect in Trois femmes puissantes and in Que font les rennes après Noël?

Marie NDiaye's Trois femmes puissantes and Olivia Rosenthal's Que font les rennes après Noël? trace female experiences navigating oppressive societal structures. Writing animals and working through the family unit prism unearths the pervasive cultural conditioning existing within and among human/environment relationships. Feminist and postcolonial ecocritical frameworks keep the fundamental structuring and valuation of what counts as fully human (culture) in view and a reminder that all representations of the environment (nature) are constructions tied to power. The authors signal the cultural, economic, and political reality of multiplicity and interdependence and create new frameworks of engagement for the French cultural space.