Writing in the Feminine in French and English Canada
A Question of Ethics
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2002
- Category
- Canadian, Women Authors
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780802036209
- Publish Date
- Jul 2002
- List Price
- $91.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442683716
- Publish Date
- Jun 2002
- List Price
- $91.00
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Description
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 Carrière 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 Mouré, and Lola Lemire Tostevin. Carrière 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.
About the author
Marie Carrière dirige le Centre de littérature canadienne de l’Université de l’Alberta, où elle enseigne aussi en études anglaises, françaises et comparées. En 2012 a paru sa deuxième monographie, Médée protéiforme, aux Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa ; elle a rassemblé, avec Patricia Demers, les textes de Régénérations : écriture des femmes au Canada (University of Alberta Press, 2014).
Other titles by
Living and Learning with Feminist Ethics, Literature, and Art
All the Feels / Tous les sens
Affect and Writing in Canada / Affect et écriture au Canada
Cautiously Hopeful
Metafeminist Practices in Canada
Writing Beyond the End Times? / Écrire au-delà de la fin des temps “
The Literatures of Canada and Quebec / Les littératures au Canada et au Québec
Les littératures franco-canadiennes à l’épreuve du temps
Ten Canadian Writers in Context
Regenerations / Régénérations
Canadian Women's Writing / Écriture des femmes au Canada
Médée protéiforme
