Mothers of invention : feminist authors and experimental fiction in France and Quebec /

Mothers of Invention draws together innovative works of fiction written by French and Quebec feminists in the mid-1970s. Through an analysis of the strategies adopted by Hélène Cixous, Madeleine Gagnon, Nicole Brossard, and Jeanne Hyvrard as they rework maternal and (pro)creative metaphors and pla...

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主要作者: Santoro, Miléna, 1965-
格式: Licensed eBooks
语言:英语
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出版: Montréal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2002.
在线阅读:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7zs0g
书本目录:
  • History, ideology, theory : tracing the contexts of feminist writing in the 1970s in France and Quebec. The revival of feminism in France and Quebec ; The question of a new writing by/for women ; Hélène Cixous, Madeleine Gagnon, Nicole Brassard, and Jeanne Hyvrard : four "mothers of invention" ; Feminist writers and avant-garde practice
  • (W)Rites of passage : Hélène Cixous's La. Points of departure ; Bringing language to (De)Light
  • Excavating the body, unwinding the (inter)text : Madeleine Gagnon's Lueur. Maternal archaeographies : writing the body's will and legacy ; Her daring paradigms : hybridized genres, subversive syntax, and innovative intertextualities
  • Drawing the line and transgressing limits : Nicole Brossard's L'Amèr. The lesbian subject as writer : again(st) the mother ; The problematics of genre and its links with gender
  • Madwomen and the mother tongue : Jeanne Hyvrard's early novels. Of madness and the (M)other ; The refusal of language and the language of refusal.