On Monique Wittig contains twelve essays, representing French, Francophone, and U.S. This collection of essays by Wittig and on her work is the first sustained examination in English of her broad-ranging political, literary, and theoretical viewpoints. Book excerpt: Monique Wittig, who died in January 2003, was a leading French feminist, social theorist, prose poet, and novelist-and an activist who helped start the lesbian and women's liberation movements in France. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. A path-breaking novel about creating and sustaining freedom, the book derives much of its energy from its vaunting of the female body as a resource for literary invention.īook Synopsis On Monique Wittig by : Namascar Shaktiniĭownload or read book On Monique Wittig written by Namascar Shaktini and published by University of Illinois Press. In this breathtakingly rapid novel first published in 1969, Wittig animates a lesbian society that invites all women to join their fight, their circle, and their community. Among the women’s most powerful weapons in their assault is laughter, but they also threaten literary and linguistic customs of the patriarchal order with bullets. Book excerpt: One of the most widely read feminist texts of the twentieth century, and Monique Wittig’s most popular novel, Les Guérillères imagines the attack on the language and bodies of men by a tribe of warrior women. This book was released on with total page 144 pages.

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