The Name of the Mother - Writing Illegitimacy

First published in 1994, Marie Maclean studies the writings of social rebels and explores the relationship between their personal narratives and illegitimacy. Skilfully interweaving feminist theory, French literary criticism, social and cultural history, deconstruction and psychoanalytic theory.

List of contents

Preface, 1. Performances of Exclusion, 2. Myth and Psychoanalysis: Legitimate and Illegitimate, 3. Mythical Histories, Historical Myths, 4. A Female Genealogy: The En-gendering of George Sand, 5. Opposition and Revolution: Olympe de Gouges and the Rights of the Dispossessed, 6. The Male/Female Messiah: Flora Tristan, 7. My Mother the Revolution: Louise Michel, 8. Symbolic Delegitimation, 9. ‘Better to Reign in Hell…’, 10. Delegitimation by Proxy, 11. Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography, Index

Summary

First published in 1994, Marie Maclean studies the writings of social rebels and explores the relationship between their personal narratives and illegitimacy. Skilfully interweaving feminist theory, French literary criticism, social and cultural history, deconstruction and psychoanalytic theory.

Product details

• Authors: Marie Maclean, Maclean Marie
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.09.2024
• EAN: 9781032265568
• ISBN: 978-1-03-226556-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women and Writing
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; England, Wales, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, LAW / Family Law / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Sociology: family & relationships, Family Law, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: general, Sociology: family and relationships, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Sociology: Birth, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Indian record