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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456436403321

Autore

Carriere Marie

Titolo

Writing in the Feminine in French and English Canada : A Question of Ethics / / Marie Carriere

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]

©2002

ISBN

1-282-02259-8

9786612022593

1-4426-8371-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/9287/09710904

Soggetti

Canadian literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Canadian literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Feminism and literature - Canada - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A study of five authors: Nicole Brossard, France Théoret, Di Brandt, Erin Mouré and Lola Lemire Tostevin.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-232) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: Poetics, Ethics, and Writing in the Feminine -- 1. Introduction to Writing in the Feminine -- 2. Writing (As) a Feminist Ethics -- Part 2: Mothers and Daughters -- 3. Resurrecting the (M)Other: Nicole Brossard -- 4. Questioning the Mother: Di Brandt -- 5. Performing Hysteria: France Théoret -- Part 3: Mothertongues -- 6. Tracing the (M)Other: Erin Mouré -- 7. Mothering Text: Lola Lemire Tostevin -- Part 4: Beyond Ethics -- 8. An Ethics of Selfhood: Théoret and Tostevin -- 9. An Ethics of Love: Brandt, Mouré, and Brossard -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Credits -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This important work considers the contemporary movement of "writing in the feminine", by examining the work of five women writers from French and English Canada and the dialogue therein with feminist and psychoanalytic theory and theories of ethics. Informing the author's interpretations are the ideas of French theorists Emmanuel Levinas, Paul Ricoeur, Luce Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva, as well as American



feminists Kelly Oliver and Jessica Benjamin.Marie CarriFre explores the unfolding, complex questions of sexual difference, female subjectivity, and mother-daughter relations. She also uncovers and examines the occasional breakdown of the feminist ethics postulated by Nicole Brossard, France Theoret, Di Brandt, Erin MourT, and Lola Lemire Tostevin. CarriFre views these instances of deviation not as a failure of writing in the feminine, but as an inevitability in the relatively new intellectual terrain of feminist ethics. Writing in the Feminine will be of great interest to scholars of literary theory, women's studies, and Canadian literature in French and English. As a challenging study of the connections between gender and authorship, it will also appeal to those who have a particular interest in women's literature.