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Borrowed Tongues

Borrowed Tongues

Life Writing, Migration, and Translation
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Borrowed Tongues is the first consistent attempt to apply the theoretical framework of translation studies in the analysis of self-representation in life writing by women in transnational, diasporic, and immigrant communities. It focuses on linguistic and philosophical dimensions of translation, showing how the dominant language serves to articula …

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By For and About

By For and About

Feminist Cultural Politics
edited by Wendy Waring
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The phrase "by, for and about" has served as a basic tenet of cultural policy direction in feminism since the early 1970s. Like "the personal is political" or "global sisterhood" it has operated as a shorthand for certain kinds of thinking about feminist and cultural politics. Unlike the other two, it continues to be used quite widely as a way of g …

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Canadians Are Not Americans

Canadians Are Not Americans

Myths and Literary Traditions
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A examination on national views of the past, nature, religion, violence and the law, humor, and other topics in the literature of Canada and the United States. A thoughtful analysis with new insights as to why Canadians aren't the same as Americans.

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Collaboration in the Feminine

Collaboration in the Feminine

Writngs on Women and Culture from Tessera
edited by Barbara Godard
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For ten years some of Canada's most innovative and critical writers have published their work inthe literary journal Tessera. With Collaboration in the Feminine, editor Barbara Godard has drawn together selected texts from this important journal to give the reader a sampling of the exciting feminist work to be found in Tessera's pages.
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Médée protéiforme

Médée protéiforme

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Le mythe de l’infanticide Médée a toujours connu une fortune littéraire et la littérature féminine contemporaine ne fait pas exception. L’analyse comparée de huit textes de femmes de divers horizons tente de cerner les enjeux de cette figure irréductible pour une pensée féministe actuelle sur la maternité, le sujet et l’écriture my …

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Nothing Mat(t)ers

Nothing Mat(t)ers

A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism
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PREFACE

INTRODUCTION
The Labyrinth

CHAPTER ONE
A Space Odyssey

CHAPTER TWO
Nothingness and De/generation

CHAPTER THREE
Existence and Death

CHAPTER FOUR
Neutrality and De/meaning

CHAPTER FIVE
Lacan and Irigaray: Ethical Lack and Ethical Presence

CHAPTER SIX
Out of Oblivion

REFERENCES

PERMISSIONS

INDEX

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