Chapter 4: Writing the Feminine?
Alex Hughes
From Violette Leduc: Mothers, Lovers, and Language (1994), pp. 114-56, doi:10.59860/td.c6abf66
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| Part of the book: Violette Leduc Alex Hughes MHRA Texts and Dissertations 37 W. S. Maney & Son Ltd for the Modern Humanities Research Association Abstract. This final chapter investigates the ways in which Violette Leduc views and uses language. Any such investigation clearly necessitates some initial exploration of contemporary analyses of the nature and significance of the linguistic order, and of feminist accounts of the problems of language women encounter. Discussion focuses on the work of French feminist theorists, who have been trained in the speculative disciplines of philosophy and psychoanalysis, rather than on that of Anglo-American women scholars. The theoretical discourses of the former group were published in the decade following Leduc’s death and clearly came into being within a conceptual/political/cultural context she would have found quite alien. None the less, because they focus on concerns which are also in evidence in comments Leduc made regarding the nature of writing and in her own texts, it is productive to use them as a point of departure from which to explore her work. Full text. This contribution is published as Open Access and can be downloaded as a PDF, or viewed as a PDF in your web browser, here: |