LEADER 04015nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910823285103321 005 20240416190422.0 010 $a1-282-85876-9 010 $a9786612858765 010 $a0-7735-6857-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773568570 035 $a(CKB)1000000000244875 035 $a(OCoLC)180773090 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10119871 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000278461 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11240488 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000278461 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10246201 035 $a(PQKB)10471103 035 $a(CaPaEBR)400025 035 $a(CaBNvSL)gtp00521314 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3330584 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10132765 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL285876 035 $a(OCoLC)929120807 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/4jnsz6 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400025 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3330584 035 $a(DE-B1597)656505 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773568570 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3243523 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000244875 100 $a20020204d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDamned women $elesbians in French novels, 1796-1996 /$fJennifer Waelti-Walters 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMontreal $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (282 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7735-2110-0 311 $a0-7735-2071-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [253]-265) and index. 327 $aMachine generated contents note: PART ONE: THE MALE GAZE, 1796-929 -- 1 Damned Women: The Prototypes -- 2 Contrasting Attitudes: Male and Female Writers 49 -- PART TWO: THROUGH WOMEN'S EYES, 1929-1968 -- 3 Constrained Desires 97 -- 4 Contrasting Generations: Leduc and Beauvoir, Wittig and Cixous I27 -- PART THREE: SPECIFICALLY FRENCH LESBIANS, -- 1968-I996 -- 5 Exploring Lesbian Identity 151 -- 6 Contrasting perspectives: Francois, Best, and Monferrand 187. 330 $aWhile homosexual men are legion in the history of French literature and criticism, until now no critic writing in French or English has given the same sort of attention to lesbians. Waelti-Walters covers two hundred years of fiction, beginning with the publication of Diderot's The Nun in 1796 and ending with present-day lesbian writers Jocelyne François, Mireille Best, Hélène de Monferrand, and the authors connected to Geneviève Pastre's lesbian publishing house. While she deals with renowned authors such as Violette Leduc and Monique Wittig, including their respective literary and personal relationships with Simone de Beauvoir and Hélène Cixous, many of the writers discussed will be unknown to most readers. Their novels vary from the extraordinarily powerful to the utterly trite; by providing the first comprehensive guide to this body of work Waelti-Walters sheds light on French literary and cultural history. Waelti-Walters shows how the lesbian authors of this literature had little or no contact with each other, let alone with lesbians outside France. She describes their world and its effects on their work, showing how their situation differs from that of British and North American lesbians. Damned Women tells a story of alienation, persecution, and isolation within a culture. It is a cultural and literary commentary full of new information, forgotten or little known authors, poignant surprises, and unexpected interrelationships. 606 $aLesbians in literature 606 $aFrench fiction$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aLesbians in literature. 615 0$aFrench fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a843.009/35206643 700 $aWaelti-Walters$b Jennifer R$01600368 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823285103321 996 $aDamned women$93923422 997 $aUNINA