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Originally published in 1991, the style of Nicole Ward Jouve's startingly original appraisals of women's writing suggests a new direction for feminist criticism, pointing up the shortcomings of much prevailing feminist analysis, and presenting viable alternatives.
List of contents
Preface: White Woman Speaks with Forked Tongue, Introduction: Criticism as Autobiography, Part 1: Bilingualism and Translation, 1. ‘Her Legs Bestrid the Channel’: Writing in Two Languages, 2. Ananas/Pineapple, 3. To Fly/To Steal: No More? Translating French Feminisms into English, Part 2: French Feminisms, 4. How to Make a Bertha Out of an Antoinette and Why Every Jane Needs a Bertha: Psych et Po and French Feminisms, 5. ‘Bliss Was it in that Dawn…’: Contemporary French Women’s Writing and the Editions des Femmes, 6. Hélène Cixious: From Inner Theatre to World Theatre, 7. How The Second Sex Stopped My Aunt from Watering the Horse-chestnuts: Simone de Beauvoir and Contemporary Feminism, 8. Doris Lessing: Of Mud and Other Matter – The Children of Violence, 9. Too Short for a Book? The Thousand and One Nights: The Short Story and the Book, 10. A Rook Called Joseph: Virginia Woolf, Index.
Summary
Originally published in 1991, the style of Nicole Ward Jouve’s startingly original appraisals of women’s writing suggests a new direction for feminist criticism, pointing up the shortcomings of much prevailing feminist analysis, and presenting viable alternatives.
