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Beautiful War

Uncommon Violence, Praxis, and Aesthetics in the Novels of Monique Wittig

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Publisher Description

‘Beautiful War’ explores the interdependent political, linguistic, and erotic registers of lesbian feminism in Monique Wittig's novels, querying in particular how they function collectively to destabilize male hegemony and heterosexism. Beginning with the assertion that Wittig expressly dismantles the Classical veneration of ‘la belle femme’ in order to create an agent more capable of social change (‘la femme belliqueuse’), the author traces the permutations of violence through her four novels, ‘L'Opoponax, Les Guérillères, Le Corps Lesbien,’ and ‘Virgile, Non’ and examines the relevance of brutality to Wittig's feminist agenda. Drawing on literary criticism, intellectual and political history, queer theory, and feminist theory in his readings of the primary texts, the author argues that Wittig's œuvre constitutes a progressive textual actualization of paradigm shifts toward gender parity and a permanent banishment of the primacy of male and heterosexist political and sexual discourse.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2010
30 June
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
143
Pages
PUBLISHER
Peter Lang AG
SIZE
1.4
MB
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