| Beautiful War: Uncommon Violence, Praxis, and Aesthetics in the Novels of Monique Wittig Contributor(s): Alvarez-Detrell, Tamara (Other), Paulson, Michael G. (Other), Davis, James D., Jr. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1433109670 ISBN-13: 9781433109676 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $95.44 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 843.914 |
| LCCN: 2010012066 |
| Series: Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.88 lbs) 143 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| 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 Gu rill res, 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 oeuvre 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. |