Description
Product ID: | 9783034322096 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | CH |
Series: | Modern French Identities |
Title: | French Feminisms 1975 and After |
Subtitle: | New Readings, New Texts |
Authors: | Author: Alison S. Fell, Peter Collier, Margaret Atack, Imogen Long, Diana Holmes |
Page Count: | 268 |
Subjects: | Literary theory, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Cultural studies, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Cultural studies, Gender studies: women, French |
Description: | Select Guide Rating This volume explores contemporary French women’s writing through the prism of one of the defining moments of modern feminism: the writings of the 1970s that came to be known as «French feminism». This volume explores contemporary French women’s writing through the prism of one of the defining moments of modern feminism: the writings of the 1970s that came to be known as «French feminism». With their exhilarating renewal of the rules of fiction, and a sophisticated theoretical approach to gender, representation and textuality, Hélène Cixous and others became internationally recognised for their work, at a time when the women’s movement was also a driving force for social change. Taking its cue from Les Femmes s’entêtent, a multi-authored analysis of the situation of women and a celebration of women’s creativity, this collection offers new readings of Monique Wittig, Emma Santos and Hélène Cixous, followed by essays on Nina Bouraoui, Michèle Perrein and Ying Chen, Marguerite Duras and Mireille Best, and Valentine Goby. A contextualising introduction establishes the theoretical and cultural framework of the volume with a critical re-evaluation of this key moment in the history of feminist thought and women’s writing, pursuing its various legacies and examining the ways theoretical and empirical developments in queer studies, postcolonial studies and postmodernist philosophies have extended, inflected and challenged feminist work. |
Imprint Name: | Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc |
Publisher Name: | Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2017-11-30 |