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Beautiful War

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

James D. Davis Jr. (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

143 Seiten

2010 | New edition
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4331-0967-6 (ISBN)

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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.

The Author: James D. Davis, Jr. is Assistant Professor of Spanish and French at Western Carolina University. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in Romance languages, with a primary emphasis on twentieth-century French and Latin American literature. He is the co-winner of the 2005 Prix Fetkann for his contributions to Hurricane: Cris d’insulaires. His literary research focuses primarily on gender and queer studies in twentieth-century French and Latin American literature, and he also studies the effects of service learning on bigotry and language acquisition.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.6.2010
Reihe/Serie	Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures ; 178
Reihe/Serie	Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures ; 178
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Schlagworte	Gender Studies • Hardcover, Softcover / Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft • Lesbian feminism • Queer Studies • Violence • Wittig, Monique
ISBN-10	1-4331-0967-0 / 1433109670
ISBN-13	978-1-4331-0967-6 / 9781433109676
Zustand	Neuware