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Cardinal's The Words To Say It: The Words To Reproduce Mother, Eilene Hoft-March Jun 1997

Cardinal's The Words To Say It: The Words To Reproduce Mother, Eilene Hoft-March

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

The Words to Say it, an autobiographical novel by Algerian-born Frenchwoman Marie Cardinal, earned praise for the accuracy with which it documents a classic psychoanalysis. Quickly sketched, the plot seems to suggest that the separation from an overpowering mother is effected by paternal language and phallic law—the normal, normative psychic itinerary of the human subject. In its reconsideration of the Oedipal, this essay explores Irigaray's idea of the ambiguities of separation from mother and the possibility that the story of (feminine) subjectivity begins with the mother, begins with affiliation and affirmation even as it speaks of separateness. From this …


‘Little Women?’: History And Her Stories In Marie Cardinal's Comme Si De Rien N'Était, Claire Marrone Mar 1997

‘Little Women?’: History And Her Stories In Marie Cardinal's Comme Si De Rien N'Était, Claire Marrone

Languages Faculty Publications

This is a revised version of the talk Claire Marrone presented under the same title, on the Fiction of Marie Cardinal and Annie Ernaux, Three Centuries of French Feminist Writers Symposium, Hofstra University, Hofstra, NY, 21 April 1994.


Declaration Of Independence: Mary Colum As Autobiographer, Sanford Sternlicht Jan 1997

Declaration Of Independence: Mary Colum As Autobiographer, Sanford Sternlicht

The Courier

I N 1947, ten years before her death at the age of 7I, Mary Catherine Gunning Maguire Colum-Molly to her friends and her husband, the poet-dramatist Padraic Colum-published one ofthe most forthright and powerful protofeminist autobiographies ofthe twentieth century: Life and the Dream, a book that should not be as neglected as it is. What was or is the dream? It was a dream ofmany episodes: the hope ofa free, prosperous, peaceful, united Ireland; the fulfillment ofthe Irish Literary Revival which she so brilliantly chronicles as a participant-witness in the autobiography, and before in her masterwork of literary criticism: From …


Researching Ruling-Class Men: Biography, Autobiography, Life-History, Mike Donaldson Jan 1997

Researching Ruling-Class Men: Biography, Autobiography, Life-History, Mike Donaldson

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

There has been a lot of use of the concept 'hegemonic masculinity' and little discussion of its meaning. Because the problem of distance from and access to men of great wealth and power cannot be resolved through traditional interviewing and participant observation techniques, this article develops an alternative method by which the masculinity of the hegemonic might be investigated. It argues that biographies and autobiographies of ruling-class men can be seen as 'found life-histories'and that the technique of 'saturation' can be usefully applied to them.This article proposes that it is possible to undertake a sociology of ruling-class masculinity which solves …