Beautiful War : Uncommon Violence, Praxis, and Aesthetics in the Novels of Monique Wittig
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1433109670
ISBN-13
9781433109676
Edition
New
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 30th, 2010
Print length
143 Pages
Weight
324 grams
Dimensions
15.70 x 23.20 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification:
Classical textsLiterary studies: from c 1900 -Gender studies: women
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Beautiful War
Beautiful War explores the interdependent political, linguistic, and erotic registers of lesbian feminism in Monique Wittig’s novels, querying in particular how they function collectively to destabilize male hegemony and heterosexism. Beginning with the assertion that Wittig expressly dismantles the Classical veneration of la belle femme in order to create an agent more capable of social change (la femme belliqueuse), the author traces the permutations of violence through her four novels, L’Opoponax, Les Guérillères, Le Corps Lesbien, and Virgile, Non and examines the relevance of brutality to Wittig’s feminist agenda. Drawing on literary criticism, intellectual and political history, queer theory, and feminist theory in his readings of the primary texts, the author argues that Wittig’s œuvre constitutes a progressive textual actualization of paradigm shifts toward gender parity and a permanent banishment of the primacy of male and heterosexist political and sexual discourse.
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