Lesbian materialism : the life and work of Monique Wittig.
This volume of Yale French Studies foregrounds Monique Wittig (1935–2003), a writer who left France to live and teach in the United States, in a diverse range of multidisciplinary conversations, in literary studies, history and gender and sexuality studies, to demonstrate how Wittig’s theoretical an...
| Format: | Book |
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale University Press,
[2023].
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| Series: | Yale French studies ;
no. 142. |
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| Summary: | This volume of Yale French Studies foregrounds Monique Wittig (1935–2003), a writer who left France to live and teach in the United States, in a diverse range of multidisciplinary conversations, in literary studies, history and gender and sexuality studies, to demonstrate how Wittig’s theoretical and literary work remains an indispensable resource for thinking and creating in the twenty-first century. Editors Morgane Cadieu and Annabel L. Kim flip the “materialist lesbianism” that Wittig’s collection of essays, The Straight Mind, centers and describes as being the core of Wittig’s work to deal instead with “lesbian materialism,” thereby making "lesbian" the method and "materialism" the object and allowing Wittig’s work to realize its full range. The volume reinterrogates the official historiography of French materialist feminism, expands the intellectual framework within which Wittig’s work is usually considered, insists on the language-centric materialism that emerges from Wittig’s writing as a way of joining the political with the literary and attends to the way this literary material inspires material responses and creations within the plastic arts. Underlying the entire volume is a keen sense of the materiality of Wittig’s archives, housed at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, as a site of lesbian thought in Wittig’s radical sense of the term, a fugitive positionality. |
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| Physical Description: | iv, 171 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780300267358 0300267355 |