Madness in Twentieth-Century French Women’s Writing : Leduc, Duras, Beauvoir, Cardinal, Hyvrard
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by
Suzanne Dow
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Modern French Identities
ISBN-10
3039115405
ISBN-13
9783039115402
Edition
New
Publisher
Verlag Peter Lang
Imprint
Verlag Peter Lang
Country of Manufacture
CH
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 13th, 2009
Print length
214 Pages
Weight
324 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.50 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Classical textsLiterary studies: from c 1900 -Gender studies: women
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Modern French Identities focuses on the French and Francophone writing of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, whose formal experiments and revisions of genre have combined to create an entirely new set of literary forms. The series publishes studies of individual authors and artists, comparative studies and interdisciplinary projects.
This book offers a discussion of the trope of madness in twentieth-century French women’s writing, focusing on close readings of the following texts: Violette Leduc’s L’Asphyxie (1946), Marguerite Duras’s Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein (1964), Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘La Femme rompue’ (1967), Marie Cardinal’s Les Mots pour le dire (1975), Jeanne Hyvrard’s Les Prunes de Cythère (1975) and Mère la mort (1976). The discussion traces the evolution in the way madness is taken up by women authors from the key period starting just prior to the emergence of second-wave feminism and culminating at the height of the écriture féminine project. This study argues that madness offers itself up to these authors as a powerful means to convey a certain ambivalence towards changing contemporary ideas on the authority of authorship. On the one hand a highly enabling means to figure transgression, the madwoman is equally the repository for a twentieth-century ‘anxiety of authorship’ on the part of the woman writer.
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