1915–1934: (Women’s Ambivalence and Transformation — Like Vieux-Chauvet’s Protagonist Claire Who Mentions the Occupation in Passing Alongside the Death of He…

1915–1934: (Women’s Ambivalence and Transformation — Like Vieux-Chauvet’s Protagonist Claire Who Mentions the Occupation in Passing Alongside the Death of Her Father Romantic Love Interests and the Occasional Heat Wave, Ghislaine Holding an Unceremonious Place for the Occupiers in Her Memory of Early Childhood — “In the Meantime” She Was a Girl Like Many Girls Shadowing the Women in Her Life, Some Women’s Ambivalence a Privilege of Class While Others’ Ambivalence Was a Quotidian Disavowal of Militarized Governance, Women Transformed by the Occupation and Transforming the Occupation in Different Ways — Different Women Drawn Toward and Standing In for One Another in Both Anti-Black and Antioccupation Political Actions, Mobility and Movement Meeting at the Moment of Maturation): Like Vieux-Chauvet’s protagonist Claire, who mentions the US occupation in passing as she describes other moments of her young adult life — the death of her father, romantic love interests, the occasional heat wave — Ghislaine held an unceremonious place for the occupiers in her memory of early childhood. In the meantime, she was a girl like many girls, shadowing the women in her life. Some women’s ambivalence toward the occupation was a privilege of social and economic class, while others’ ambivalence was a quotidian disavowal of militarized governance. Women were transformed by the occupation, and they transformed the occupation in different ways. Different women were also drawn toward and stood in for one another in both anti-Black and antioccupation political actions. As women navigated their rights to traverse the changing physical and political infrastructure of the occupation, mobility and movement met at the moment of maturation. The occupation was not a single event but a condition — a condition that shaped bodies, remade streets, fractured families, and forged alliances that would outlast the foreign military presence itself.