Beautiful War : Uncommon Violence, Praxis, and Aesthetics in the Novels of Monique Wittig

Name: Beautiful War
Brand: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
SKU: 9781433109676
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by James D. Davis Jr.

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Format Hardback

Book Series Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures

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: French Ancient, classical and medieval texts Classical texts Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: from c 1900 -Gender studies: women and girls 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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