E-book
Mothers of invention : feminist authors and experimental fiction in France and Quebec
Record details
- ISBN: 6612860510
- ISBN: 9786612860515
- ISBN: 9781282860513
- ISBN: 1282860518
- ISBN: 0773570268
- ISBN: 9780773570269
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 348 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Montréal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2002.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Princeton University, 1994) presented under the title: The feminist avant-garde text in France and Quebec. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-335) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
| Language Note: | Text in English with extracts in French. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. |
