Damned Women: Lesbians in French Novel by Waelti-Walters, Jennifer

Damned Women: Lesbians in French Novel

While homosexual men are legion in the history of French literature and criticism, until now no critic...
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Author: Jennifer Waelti-Walters
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Damned Women: Lesbians in French Novel by Waelti-Walters, Jennifer

Damned Women: Lesbians in French Novel

$111.95

Damned Women: Lesbians in French Novel

$111.95
Author: Jennifer Waelti-Walters
Format: Paperback
Language: English
While 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 Fran ois, Mireille Best, H l ne de Monferrand, and the authors connected to Genevi ve 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 H l ne 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.

Author: Jennifer Waelti-Walters
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 08/24/2000
Pages: 284
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.02w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780773521100

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