Jeanne Hyvrard : theorist of the modern world /

Jeanne Hyvrard : theorist of the modern world /

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Author / Creator:	Waelti-Walters, Jennifer R.
Imprint:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©1996.
Description:	1 online resource (vi, 210 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Hyvrard, Jeanne -- Criticism and interpretation. Hyvrard, Jeanne. Hyvrard, Jeanne, -- (19..- ...) -- Critique et interprétation. Hyvrard, Jeanne -- Criticism and interpretation. Feminism in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French. Feminism in literature. Feminisme. Féminisme et littérature. French Literature. Romance Literatures. Languages & Literatures. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Electronic books. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11104912

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ISBN:	0585102821 9780585102825 0748608311 0748608184 9780748608317 9780748608188
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-207) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	This critical introduction for the first time brings the work of the French theorist Jeanne Hyvrard to the English-speaking world. Hyvrard, by training a political economist, combines 'chaos theory', personal history, and political analysis to address the condition and future of the post-colonial world. Original, incisive and committed to new ways of thinking, Hyvrard's work confronts the profound questions of our time: language; the body; women's resistance to physical and psychological oppression; colonialism; ecology and technology; madness and illness; birth and death; and mother-daughter relations. Much of Hyvrard's writing (like that of other French feminist writers) is semi fictional. Like Helene Cixous, Hyvrard has been described as a proponent of 'l'ecriture feminine', but, as Jennifer Waelti-Walters shows by setting Hyvrard's work in a range of contexts, Hyvrard makes her own distinctive contribution to western intellectual thought by working out from the female body to global politics, economics and environmental issues.
Other form:	Print version: Waelti-Walters, Jennifer R. Jeanne Hyvrard. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©1996 0748608311