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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures: Nostalgia, Ethics, and the Ques
- Publication Date
- 1998-05-01
- Pages
- 212
- ISBN
- 9780804730266
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism
- Publication Name
- Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures : Nostalgia, Ethics, and the Question of Difference
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Subject
- Subjects & Themes / Women, Feminist, European / French
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 10.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 212 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN-10
0804730261
ISBN-13
9780804730266
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1012868
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
212 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures : Nostalgia, Ethics, and the Question of Difference
Subject
Subjects & Themes / Women, Feminist, European / French
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
10.7 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
97-041231
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
840.9/3520431
Synopsis
This book examines the relations among nostalgia, gender, and foundational philosophies through a critique of the lost mother as a ground for thinking about sexual difference. More specifically, the author critiques the nostalgic tendencies of feminist theory, arguing that an emancipatory system of thought must move beyond a maternally oriented structure. Through close readings of works by Maurice Blanchot, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, and Nicole Brossard, the book elucidates the many dimensions of nostalgic paradigms--literary, psychoanalytic, epistemological, ontological, and sociopolitical. This critique ultimately confronts postmodernism, and especially the burgeoning field of performative theory, as an intellectual paradigm that claims to subvert systems of meaning. Analyzing the writings of J. L. Austin, Judith Butler, and Irigaray, the author argues that despite its antinostalgic structure, performative theory provides an inadequate model for understanding the connections among language, identity, and the social bonds that constitute the ethical and political sphere. Asserting, through the example of performative theory, that a critique is not enough, the book examines the possibility of a constructive model that is both non-nostalgic and informed by ethical constraints. One such model is offered through a reading of the Quebecois writer Nicole Brossard, which explores her work in relation to the question of lesbian writing. Demystifying nostalgia, Brossard not only uncovers and subverts the structures through which a concept of origins is produced, but also provides a different, visionary way of thinking about the relationship between subjectivity and language. Finally, the book argues for further feminist work on the relationship between narrative and ethics, a field whose future lies in the elaboration of a bridge between the moral commitments of ethical theory and the fractured realities that find their expression in literary forms., This book examines the relations among nostalgia, gender, and foundational philosophies through a critique of the lost mother as a ground for thinking about sexual difference.
LC Classification Number
PQ305
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