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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Autobiographical Tightropes: Simone de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, and Maryse Condé

Autobiographical Tightropes: Simone de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, and Maryse Condé

Hewitt, Leah D.

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ISBN10: 0803272588
ISBN13: 9780803272583
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Aug 1 1992
Pages: 259
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.57 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
In order to write said Simone de Beauvoir, the first essential condition is that reality can no longer be taken for granted. She and four other French women writers of the second half of the twentieth century--Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, and Maryse Condé--illustrate that producing autobiography is like performing a tightrope act on the slippery line between fact and fiction.

Autobiographical Tightropes emphasizes the tension in the works of these major writers as they move in and out of experience and literature, violating the neat boundaries between genres and confusing the distinctions between remembering and creating. Focusing on selected works, Leah D. Hewitt for the first time anywhere explores the connections among the authors. In doing so she shows how contemporary women's autobiography in France links with feminist issues, literary tradition and trends, and postmodern theories of writing.

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