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Book Itin  raires de l   criture au f  minin

Download or read book Itin raires de l criture au f minin written by Bénédicte Monicat and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1996 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les écrits des voyageuses françaises et francophones du 19e siècle sont la matière d'un ouvrage qui offre le premier panorama géographique et bibliographique des récits de voyages de femmes du siècle dernier. A partir de cette riche tradition, Itinéraires de l'écriture au féminin élabore une réflexion théorique soulignant la complexité de textes qui posent de manière inévitable la question de la nature et du statut des écrits de femmes. Les récits de neuf voyageuses aux parcours divers permettent de comprendre plus précisément les caractères rhétoriques et substantiels de ces distinctions. Les questions que se posent les voyageuses sont à lire en relation au paradigme de la féminité omniprésent dans ces ouvrages. Pourquoi partir puisqu'on est femme? Comment partir quand on est femme? Pourquoi écrire? Comment écrire en femme le récit d'expériences hors normes, en particulier la découverte d'autres cultures et d'autres femmes? Comment se dire alors? Des itinéraires les plus conventionnels aux destinées les plus extraordinaires, les explorations textuelles des voyageuses montrent combien l'idéologie des différences sexuelles influe sur les récit d'expériences féminines, leur bien-fondé. Cette étude montre aussi combien ces femmes pensèrent leur condition, furent conscientes de frontières idéologiques qu'elles traversèrent dans l'acte d'écrire le voyage. Itinéraires de l'écriture au féminin: Voyageuses du 19e siècle intéressera les critiques et historiens de la littérature féminine, les spécialistes du 19e siècle, de même que les théoriciens des discours coloniaux et de la rhétorique des différences sexuelles.

Book Itin  raires de l   criture Au F  minin

Download or read book Itin raires de l criture Au F minin written by Bénédicte Monicat and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-04-24 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les écrits des voyageuses françaises et francophones du 19e siècle sont la matière d'un ouvrage qui offre le premier panorama géographique et bibliographique des récits de voyages de femmes du siècle dernier. A partir de cette riche tradition, Itinéraires de l'écriture au féminin élabore une réflexion théorique soulignant la complexité de textes qui posent de manière inévitable la question de la nature et du statut des écrits de femmes. Les récits de neuf voyageuses aux parcours divers permettent de comprendre plus précisément les caractères rhétoriques et substantiels de ces distinctions. Les questions que se posent les voyageuses sont à lire en relation au paradigme de la féminité omniprésent dans ces ouvrages. Pourquoi partir puisqu'on est femme? Comment partir quand on est femme? Pourquoi écrire? Comment écrire en femme le récit d'expériences hors normes, en particulier la découverte d'autres cultures et d'autres femmes? Comment se dire alors? Des itinéraires les plus conventionnels aux destinées les plus extraordinaires, les explorations textuelles des voyageuses montrent combien l'idéologie des différences sexuelles influe sur les récit d'expériences féminines, leur bien-fondé. Cette étude montre aussi combien ces femmes pensèrent leur condition, furent conscientes de frontières idéologiques qu'elles traversèrent dans l'acte d'écrire le voyage. Itinéraires de l'écriture au féminin: Voyageuses du 19e siècle intéressera les critiques et historiens de la littérature féminine, les spécialistes du 19e siècle, de même que les théoriciens des discours coloniaux et de la rhétorique des différences sexuelles.

Book Writing the North of the North   L     criture du Nord du Nord   Den Norden des Nordens  be  schreiben

Download or read book Writing the North of the North L criture du Nord du Nord Den Norden des Nordens be schreiben written by Annie Bourguignon and published by Frank & Timme GmbH. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expression “North of the North” refers both to an objective, geographical reality – the territories situated at the highest latitudes on our planet – and to a subjective, mental construction which came into being many centuries ago and has been developed, modified and differentiated ever since. The chapters in the present volume examine various aspects of that concept, analysing texts and works of art from a range of regions and periods. La notion de « Nord du Nord » renvoie tout autant à la réalité géographique objective que sont les territoires des latitudes les plus élevées de notre planète qu’à une construction mentale subjective qui s’est constituée, développée et modifiée au cours du temps. Les contributions du présent volume se proposent d’en explorer les multiples facettes en recourant à des textes et œuvres d’art d’époques et de provenances diverses. Der Begriff „Norden des Nordens“ verweist sowohl auf eine objektive geographische Wirklichkeit, nämlich die in den höchsten Breitengraden unseres Planeten gelegenen Territorien, als auch auf eine subjektive mentale Konstruktion, die im Laufe der Zeiten entstanden ist, sich fortentwickelt und ausdifferenziert hat. Die im vorliegenden Band enthaltenen Beiträge erforschen die vielfältigen Facetten dieses Begriffs anhand von Texten und Kunstwerken aus verschiedenen Regionen und Epochen.

Book Ecriture f  minine

    Book Details:
  • Author : Souad Ameur
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Ecriture f minine written by Souad Ameur and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'écriture des femmes a évolué d'une manière spectaculaire depuis le début du 20ème siècle. La création féminine a connu un essor remarquable. Ecrivaines occidentales et orientales, en position de défense ont pris une place prépondérante dans la littérature de leur temps. Leurs écrits ont tellement de points communs et si peu de divergences qu'il est possible d'en conclure qu'elles ont donné naissance à une expression littéraire nouvelle qui se distingue de l'écriture masculine. Le féminin émerge de la quête de soi et laisse apparaître des aspirations inédites. Les femmes s'expriment sous des formes créatrices et esthétiques spécifiques. Leur littérature révèle une omniprésence du corps et de la sexualité en lien étroit avec la société. Duras, Aleramo, Djebar et Mernissi, romancières brillantes ont reçu prix et honneurs venus du monde entier. Les critiques ont enfin remarqué leur talent d'auteure, poète, dramaturge alors que la société ne reconnaissait depuis longtemps que l'écriture masculine. L'écriture féminine ne cesse de gagner du terrain et s'impose désormais dans le milieu littéraire. Ces excellentes romancières se permettent d'aborder leur intimité et celle de leurs semblables. La plupart d'entre elles ont publié à l'âge de la maturité. Leurs biographies respectives montrent le lien qui les unit. Le sentiment d'injustice est le socle de leurs récits, injustice à l'égard du colonisé, à l égard de la femme dans le couple, et de la femme en général. Le fait féminin influence leur écriture qui exprime les malaises sociaux, l'isolement, la solitude, la violence et en imprègne le système scriptuel. L'étude de cette écriture est inséparable du contexte social et historique des textes, personnages et thèmes. Un rapprochement des œuvres de ces romancières est non seulement plausible mais indispensable pour comprendre l'essor de la littérature féminine. Au-delà de la langue, ces auteures, de pays, cultures et générations différents ont pris le chemin de l'écriture autobiographique, amorçant les traits distinctifs de l'écriture féminine. Elles ont en commun le choix essentiel de personnages féminins dont certains iront jusqu'au suicide pour échapper à l'aliénation. Il s'agit de mettre en exergue la quête identitaire des femmes dans une société donnée. Cette thèse centre son étude sur 4 romans : Una Donna, L'Amant de la Chine du Nord, Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement, et Dreams of Trespass. L'être- femme est représenté dans un rapport à la violence masculine mais aussi à sa propre violence sur arrière-plan d'aliénation sociale et culturelle.

Book The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature

Download or read book The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature written by Eva M. Sartori and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-07-30 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest known literary productions by women living in Europe were probably written by French writers. As early as the 12th century, women troubadours in the south of France were writing poems. French women continued writing through the ages, their number increasing as education became more available to women of all classes. And yet, of the great number of works by women writers who preceded the current feminist movement, very few have survived. A few writers such as Marie de France, George Sand, and Simone de Beauvoir became part of the canon. But critics, mostly male, had judged the works of only a few women writers worthy of recognition. As part of the feminist move to reclaim women writers and to rethink literary history, scholars in French literature began to take a new look at women writers who had been popular during their lifetimes but who had not been admitted into the canon. This reference book provides extensive information about French women writers and the world in which they lived. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries for authors; literary genres, such as the novel, poetry, and the short story; literary movements, such as classicism, realism, and surrealism; life-cycle events particular to women, such as menstruation and menopause; events and institutions which affected women differently than men, such as revolutions, wars, and laws on marriage, divorce, and education. The volume spans French literature from the Middle Ages to the present and covers those writers who lived and worked mainly in France. The entries are written by expert contributors and each includes bibliographical information. The entries focus on each writer's awareness of how her gender shaped her outlook and opportunities, on how categorizations, structures, and terms used to describe literary works have been defined for women, and the ways in which women writers have responded to these definitions. The volume begins with a feminist history of French literature and concludes with a selected, general bibliography and a chronology of women writers.

Book Travelling in Different Skins

Download or read book Travelling in Different Skins written by Dúnlaith Bird and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dúnlaith Bird argues that vagabondage - a physical and textual elaboration of gender identity in motion - emerges as a totemic concept in European women's travel writing from 1850. For travellers including Olympe Audouard, Isabella Bird, Isabelle Eberhardt, and Freya Stark,vagabondage is a means of pushing out the physical, geographical, and textual parameters by which 'women' are defined. Travelling in Different Skins explores the negotiations of European women travel writers from 1850-1950 within the traditionally male-oriented discourses of colonialism and Orientalism. Moving from historical overview to close textual reading, it traces a complex web of tacit collusion and gleeful defiance. These women improvise access to the highly gendered 'imaginative geography' of the Orient. Tactics including cross-dressing, commerciality, and the effacement of their male companions are used to carve out a space for their unconventional and often sexually-hybrid constructions. Using a composite theoretical basis of the later critical work of Judith Butler and Edward Said, this comparative study of British and French colonial empires and gender norms draws out the nuances in these travellers' constructions of gender identity. Women travel writers are shown to play an important role in the legacy of sexual experimentation and self-creation in the Orient, traditionally associated with male writers including Gide and Pierre Loti, and now ripe for critical re-evaluation. This study demonstrates how these women use lived experiences of restriction and negotiation to elaborate advanced theories of motion and gender construction, presaging the concerns of twenty-first century feminism and post-colonialism.

Book L   criture femme

    Book Details:
  • Author : Béatrice Didier
  • Publisher : Presses Universitaires de France - PUF
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book L criture femme written by Béatrice Didier and published by Presses Universitaires de France - PUF. This book was released on 1981 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Y a-t-il une spécificité de l'écriture féminine ? Cette spécificité, difficile à définir, semble surtout dépendre de la "culture" plus que de la "nature". A partir d'un certain nombre d'études de textes écrits par des femmes, B. Didier s'interroge sur quelques constantes : thèmes, registres, modes d'écriture."

Book L   criture du f  minin chez Zola et dans la fiction naturaliste

Download or read book L criture du f minin chez Zola et dans la fiction naturaliste written by Anna Gural-Migdal and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Est-ce que la représentation de la femme chez Zola, et dans la fiction naturaliste en général, entérine l'idée d'une permanence du féminin? Echappe-t-elle au contraire à toute figure, y compris au mythe de la diabolisation ou de l'exaltation, pour faire valoir une ambiguïté, une indétermination qui correspondrait à l'effacement des sexes propre à la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle? C'est à une telle question que cet ouvrage s'attache à répondre dans le but de cerner une écriture du féminin propre à la fiction naturaliste. L'écriture du féminin est ici envisagée à la fois comme poétique de la représentation, interprétation textuelle et discours conscient ou inconscient que la société fait entendre sur la femme. Un tel discours n'échappe pas à l'hégémonie positiviste de son époque qui légitime toute catégorisation de la féminité. Parallèlement, à l'état de crise déclenché par le progrès scientifique et la peur face aux transformations qu'il engendre, fait dès lors écho une herméneutique du féminin comme métamorphose, ouverture et énigme. Does the representation of woman in Zola, and in naturalist fiction in general, confirm the notion of a permanence of the feminine; or, on the contrary, does it escape all tropes, including myths that demonize or exalt, in order to exploit its ambiguity or indeterminacy, and thereby correspond to the erasure of sex that characterizes cultural production during the second half of the nineteenth century? This is the question this work attempts to answer, in order to define and delimit the writing of the feminine in naturalist fiction. In this book, the inscription of the feminine is envisaged simultaneously as a poetics of representation, textual interpretation, and conscious or unconscious discourse that society gives to understand about woman. Such a discourse fails to escape the positivist hegemony of the period that legitimizes the categorization of the feminine. Nevertheless, beyond this systemization of the concept of woman, the idea of scientific progress brings about the development of a generalized myth of transformation that gives rise to the anguish of incertitude, degeneracy, and emptiness. A hermeneutics of woman as metamorphosis, open-mindedness, and mystery echos this situation of crisis.

Book Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures   Continental Europe and its Empires

Download or read book Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures Continental Europe and its Empires written by Prem Poddar and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-21 with total page 847 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first reference work to provide an integrated and authoritative body of information about the political, cultural and economic contexts of postcolonial literatures that have their provenance in the major European Empires of Belgium, Denmark, France, G

Book French Romantic Travel Writing

Download or read book French Romantic Travel Writing written by Christopher W. Thompson and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2012 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering overview of the travel books produced by fourteen French Romantic writers - including Chateaubriand, Staël, Stendhal, Hugo, Nerval, Sand, Mérimée, Dumas, and Tristan - whose journeys ranged from Peru to Russia and from North America to North Africa and the Near East.

Book Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era  1760   1850

Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era 1760 1850 written by Christopher John Murray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 850 analytical articles, this two-volume set explores the developments that influenced the profound changes in thought and sensibility during the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. The Encyclopedia provides readers with a clear, detailed, and accurate reference source on the literature, thought, music, and art of the period, demonstrating the rich interplay of international influences and cross-currents at work; and to explore the many issues raised by the very concepts of Romantic and Romanticism.

Book A Parisienne in Chicago

    Book Details:
  • Author : Madame Léon Grandin
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 0252035135
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book A Parisienne in Chicago written by Madame Léon Grandin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating account of a French woman's impressions of America in the late nineteenth century reveals an unusual cross-cultural journey through fin de siècle Paris, Chicago, and New York. Madame Leon Grandin's travels and extended stay in Chicago in 1893 were the result of her husband's collaboration on the fountain sculpture for the World's Columbian Exposition. Initially impressed with the city's fast pace and architectural grandeur, Grandin's attentions were soon drawn to its social and cultural customs, reflected as observations in her writing. During a ten-month interval as a resident, she was intrigued by the interactions between men and women, mothers and their children, teachers and students, and other human relationships, especially noting the comparative social freedoms of American women. After this interval of acclimatization, the young Parisian socialite had begun to view her own culture and its less liberated mores with considerable doubt. "I had tasted the fruit of independence, of intelligent activity, and was revolted at the idea of assuming once again the passive and inferior role that awaited me!" she wrote. Grandin's curiosity and interior access to Chicago's social and domestic spaces produced an unusual travel narrative that goes beyond the usual tourist reactions and provides a valuable resource for readers interested in late nineteenth-century America, Chicago, and social commentary. Significantly, her feminine views on American life are in marked contrast to parallel reflections on the culture by male visitors from abroad. It is precisely the dual narrative of this text--the simultaneous recounting of a foreigner's impressions, and the consequent questioning of her own cultural certainties--that make her book unique. This translation includes an introductory essay by Arnold Lewis that situates Grandin's account in the larger context of European visitors to Chicago in the 1890s.

Book Before Trans

Download or read book Before Trans written by Rachel Mesch and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This thoughtful academic treatise . . . explores the lives of three famous gender nonconformists in fin-de-siècle Paris.” —Publishers Weekly Before the term “transgender” existed, there were those who experienced their gender in complex ways. Before Trans examines the lives and writings of Jane Dieulafoy (1850–1916), Rachilde (1860–1953), and Marc de Montifaud (1845–1912), three French writers whose gender expression did not conform to nineteenth-century notions of femininity. Dieulafoy fought alongside her husband in the Franco-Prussian War; later she wrote novels about girls becoming boys and enjoyed being photographed in her signature men's suits. Rachilde became famous in the 1880s for her controversial gender-bending novel Monsieur Vénus, published around the same time that she started using a calling card that read “Rachilde, Man of Letters.” Montifaud turned to erotic writings, for which she was repeatedly charged with "offense to public decency"; she wore tailored men's suits and a short haircut and went by masculine pronouns among certain friends. Dieulafoy, Rachilde, and Montifaud established themselves as fixtures in the literary world of fin-de-siècle Paris at the same time as French writers, scientists, and doctors were becoming fascinated with sexuality and sexual difference. Even so, the concept of gender identity as separate from sexual identity did not yet exist. Before Trans explores these three figures' efforts to articulate a sense of selfhood that did not align with the conventional gender roles of their day. Their personal stories provide vital historical context for our own efforts to understand the nature of gender identity. “A fresh and original take on trans history.” —Jack Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure

Book Beginnings in French Literature

Download or read book Beginnings in French Literature written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the contents: R. Howard BLOCH: Eneas before the walls of Carthage: the beginnings of the city and romance in the suburbs. - Richard l. REGOSIN: Language and nation in 16th-Century France: the Arts poetiques. - Zahi ZALLOUA: Reading the Essais: Where does the critic begin? - Louise K. HOROWITZ: Honore d'Urfe: Bellwether beginnings. - Leonard HINDS: Paratext and framing narrative: techniques of skepticism in Le parasite mormon."

Book The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music and Gender

Download or read book The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music and Gender written by Stan Hawkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is gender inseparable from pop songs? What can gender representations in musical performances mean? Why are there strong links between gender, sexuality and popular music? The sound of the voice, the mix, the arrangement, the lyrics and images, all link our impressions of gender to music. Numerous scholars writing about gender in popular music to date are concerned with the music industry’s impact on fans, and how tastes and preferences become associated with gender. This is the first collection of its kind to develop and present new theories and methods in the analysis of popular music and gender. The contributors are drawn from a range of disciplines including musicology, sociology, anthropology, gender studies, philosophy, and media studies, providing new reference points for studies in this interdisciplinary field. Stan Hawkins’s introduction sets out to situate a variety of debates that prompts ways of thinking and working, where the focus falls primarily on gender roles. Amongst the innovative approaches taken up in this collection are: queer performativity, gender theory, gay and lesbian agency, the female pop celebrity, masculinities, transculturalism, queering, transgenderism and androgyny. This Research Companion is required reading for scholars and teachers of popular music, whatever their disciplinary background.

Book L   criture Au F  minin Et L institution Litt  raire

Download or read book L criture Au F minin Et L institution Litt raire written by University of Alberta. Research Institute for Comparative Literature and published by L'Institute. This book was released on 1992 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Feminism s Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carolyn J. Eichner
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2022-06-15
  • ISBN : 1501763822
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book Feminism s Empire written by Carolyn J. Eichner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminism's Empire investigates the complex relationships between imperialisms and feminisms in the late nineteenth century and demonstrates the challenge of conceptualizing "pro-imperialist" and "anti-imperialist" as binary positions. By intellectually and spatially tracing the era's first French feminists' engagement with empire, Carolyn J. Eichner explores how feminists opposed—yet employed—approaches to empire in writing, speaking, and publishing. In differing ways, they ultimately tied forms of imperialism to gender liberation. Among the era's first anti-imperialists, French feminists were enmeshed in the hierarchies and epistemologies of empire. They likened their gender-based marginalization to imperialist oppressions. Imperialism and colonialism's gendered and sexualized racial hierarchies established categories of inclusion and exclusion that rested in both universalism and ideas of "nature" that presented colonized people with theoretical, yet impossible, paths to integration. Feminists faced similar barriers to full incorporation due to the gendered contradictions inherent in universalism. The system presumed citizenship to be male and thus positioned women as outsiders. Feminism's Empire connects this critical struggle to hierarchical power shifts in racial and national status that created uneasy linkages between French feminists and imperial authorities.