The becoming of the body : contemporary women's writing in French /
A critical investigation of contemporary statements of the female body in French literature and philosophy. Following a long tradition of objectification, 20th-century French feminism often sought to liberate the female body from the confines of patriarchal logos and to inscribe its rhythms in writi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Crosscurrents (Edinburgh University Press)
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The orchid, the wasp and the text : encountering bodily becoming through Deleuze and Feminism
- 2. Making a body without organs : Amélie Nothomb's an-organic flux of immanence
- 3. Becoming otherwise : the transformative encounter in Ananda Devi's writing
- 4. The flux and folds of consciousness : Marie Darrieussecq's literature of simulation and dispersal
- 5. Nomadic vitalities : becoming beyond boundaries in Nina Bouraoui's writing.
