Shifting Scenes: Interviews on Women, Writing, and Politics in Post-68 France [Paperback]

Alice A. Jardine (Editor), Carolyn G. Heilbrun (Editor), Nancy K. Miller (Editor)

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Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Columbia University Press; Reprint edition (June 1991)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0231067739
ISBN-13: 978-0231067737
Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
Shipping Weight: 318 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,542,364 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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A lively informative picture of the diversity of opinion held by French "feminists" today . . . . a stimulating exchange of ideas between cultures as well as across discipline. -- Review of Contemporary Fiction

Two American feminists asked several French women intellectuals some American questions; their answers provide a sparkling and often startling account of the difference between the two cultures with regard to feminism, the university, and the canon. -- Elaine Showalter author of Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media

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Fifteen of the most important and influential women fiction writers, critics, and theorists writing in France today are interviewed in Shifting Scenes. Although their writing and attitudes differ in many ways, their work is perceived in the U.S. to constitute "French Feminism," and has a marked impact on American feminist theory. Alice Jardine and Anne Menke interviewed Chantal Chawaf, Helene Cixous, Catherine Clement, Francoise Collin, Marguerite Duras, Claudine Herrmann, Jeanne Hyvrard, Luce Irigaray, Sarah Kofman, Julia Kristeva, Eugenie Lemoine-Luccioni, Marcelle Marini, Michele Montrelay, Christiane Rochefort, and Monique Wittig. The women were asked what it means to be a woman writer in France today and how each views her relations to her country's institutions, and the place of women writers in the canon. the answers are lively, unexpectedly argumentative, and diverse. What these highly accomplished women have to say about contemporary society, politics, literature, feminism, and their own work, will surprise, inform, and challenge.

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