Feminist novelists of the Belle Epoque : love as a lifestyle / Jennifer Waelti-Walters.
Jennifer R. Waelti-Walters
BookSantoro elucidates notoriously difficult works by the four "mothers of invention" studied - Cixous and Hyvrard from France, and Gagnon and Brossard from Quebec - showing how the rethinking of images associated with femininity and motherhood, a disruptive approach to language, and a subversive relation to novelistic conventions characterize these writers' search for a writing that will best express women's desires and dreams. Mothers of Invention situates such ideologically motivated textual practices within the avant-garde tradition, even as it suggests how women's experimental writings collectively transform our understanding of that tradition. Santoro makes clear the shared ethical and aesthetic commitments that nourished a transatlantic community whose contribution to mainstream literature and cultural productions, including postmodernism, is still being felt today.
Title |
Mothers of invention [electronic resource] : feminist authors and experimental fiction in France and Quebec / Miléna Santoro. |
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Publisher |
Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press |
Creation Date |
2002 |
Notes |
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Princeton University, 1994) presented under the title: The feminist avant-garde text in France and Quebec. Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
Content |
Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- History, Ideology, Theory: Tracing the Contexts of Feminist Writing in the 1970S in France and Quebec -- (W)Rites of Passage: Hélène Cixous’s La -- Excavating the Body, Unwinding the (Inter)Text: Madeleine Gagnon’s Lueur -- Drawing the Line and Transgressing Limits: Nicole Brossard’s L’Amèr -- Madwomen and the Mother Tongue: Jeanne Hyvrard’s Early Novels -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Extent |
1 online resource (365 p.) |
Language |
English |
National Library system number |
997010704100105171 |
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