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Record Nr.

UNINA9910348232603321

Autore

Kim Annabel L.

Titolo

Unbecoming language : anti-identitarian French feminist fictions / / Annabel L. Kim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : The Ohio State University Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

0-8142-5501-9

0-8142-7662-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 pages)

Disciplina

843/.91099287

Soggetti

French fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

Women novelists, French - History and criticism

Feminist theory

Feminism and literature - France - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sarraute's indeterminacy: a universe without contours -- Inside Wittig's Chantier: to build a trojan horse -- Garreta: no subject here -- Toward a poetics of unbecoming; or, language has a body -- Conclusion: Unbecoming language.

Sommario/riassunto

"Examines a corpus of French literature--by Nathalie Sarraute, Monique Wittig, and Anne Garréta--writing against difference in order to show how these authors hollowed out difference, breaking free from identity and subjectivity in order to affect personal and political change"--