Writing with a vengeance : the Countess de Chabrillan's rise from prostitution / / Carol Mossman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458410803321
• Autore: Mossman Carol A.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009; ©2009
• ISBN: 1-4426-9719-9; 1-4426-9777-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (210 p.)
• Collana: University of Toronto Romance Series
• Disciplina: 843/.8
• Soggetti: Women authors, French - 19th century; Courtesans - France; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part One. Chabrillan's Contexts: Biographical, Historical, Literary -- 1. The Wages of Shame -- 2. Worlds Apart: Mapping Prostitution and the Demi-monde -- 3. Fictions of Prostitution -- Part Two. Chabrillan and the Uses of Fiction -- 4. La Sapho, or Staging Vengeance -- 5. Plotting Exoneration -- 6. Chabrillan's Final Novels, or The Uses of Fiction -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Writing with a Vengeance examines the life and works of a nineteenth-century French courtesan, Céleste Vénard, later the Countess de Chabrillan. A notorious Paris courtesan, Chabrillan married into the nobility, taught herself to write (penning two series of memoirs) and, upon being widowed, wrote novels to support herself - ten, between 1857 and 1885. These novels and memoirs constitute exceptional literary and historical documents, particularly as very few sex workers before the twentieth century have left written records of their lives.Writing with a Vengeance intertwines the courtesan's autobiographical account of the horrors of her life on the streets with that era's political, ; medical, and cultural discourses surrounding prostitution. Though French society both silenced and refused to pardon the prostitute, Carol Mossman's literary analysis of Chabrillan's novels contends that it is through the process of writing itself that she arrived at self-forgiveness and ultimately refashioned for her damaged self a new identity and narrative.

Returns : becoming Indigenous in the twenty-first century / / James Clifford

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789448603321
• Autore: Clifford James <1945->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London : , : Harvard University Press, , 2013; ©2013
• ISBN: 0-674-72728-2; 0-674-72622-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (377 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8
• Soggetti: Indigenous peoples; Indigenous peoples - Ethnic identity; Indigenous peoples - Social life and customs; Cultural fusion
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Part I. -- 1. Among Histories -- 2. Indigenous Articulations -- 3. Varieties of Indigenous Experience -- Part II. -- 4. Ishi's Story -- Part III. -- 5. Hau'ofa's Hope -- 6. Looking Several Ways -- 7. Second Life: The Return of the Masks -- Epilogue -- References -- Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Returns explores homecomings--the ways people recover and renew their roots. Engaging with indigenous histories of survival and transformation, James Clifford opens fundamental questions about where we are going, separately and together, in a globalizing, but not ; homogenizing, world. It was once widely assumed that tribal societies were destined to disappear. Sooner or later, irresistible economic and political forces would complete the destruction begun by culture contact and colonialism. But aboriginal groups persist, a reality that complicates familiar narratives of modernization. History is a multidirectional process where the word "indigenous," long associated with primitivism and localism, takes on unexpected meanings. In these probing essays, native people in California, Alaska, and Oceania are shown to be agents, not victims, struggling within and against dominant forms of cultural identity and economic power. Their returns to the land, performances of heritage, and diasporic ties are strategies for moving forward, ways to articulate what can paradoxically be called "traditional futures." With inventiveness and pragmatism, often against the odds, indigenous people are forging original pathways in a tangled, open-ended modernity. Third in a series that includes The Predicament of Culture and Routes, this volume continues Clifford's signature exploration of intercultural representations, travels, and now returns.