Carol Mastrangelo Bové

Colette and the Incest Taboo (eBook, ePUB)

That Most Disturbing of Drives

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book makes an argument critical to literary theory and sexuality in 2025. It argues that Colette's fiction portrays a woman struggling to live in the throes of the incest taboo, understood in its psychological implications for power relations both private and public, then and now.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839990496
• Artikelnr.: 72483773

Autorenporträt

Carol Mastrangelo Bové is Professor Emerita in English and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. She is also Professor Emerita in French, Westminster College, PA, USA. She has published Language and Politics in Kristeva: Literature, Art, Therapy (2006), Kristeva in America: Re-imagining the Exceptional (2020), and many articles on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, film and literary translation.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction. That Most Majestic and Disturbing of Drives: Colette's Work and Life
1. A Woman of a Certain Age: Chéri
2. La Maison de Claudine: Maman Not Claudine
3. Gigi: The Importance of the Uncle
4. More Than a Musical: Minnelli's Gigi
5. Far from the Father of Personal Pre-History: Westmoreland's Colette
  Neither Depression nor Perversion: Colette in Bloom (Julia Kristeva, trans. Carol Mastrangelo Bové)
Bibliography
Index