1st Edition

White Woman Speaks with Forked Tongue Criticism as Autobiography

By Nicole Ward Jouve Copyright 1991
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1991. The style of this startlingly original appraisal of a broad range of women’s writing suggests a new direction for feminist criticism, combining as it does challenging, intellectual debate and fresh textual analysis with fictional example and autobiographical detail to make a wholly new invention in the field. In addressing the need for the critic to say ‘I’ and to... Read more

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.

Biography

Nicole Ward Jouve