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Infiltrating culture : power and identity in contemporary women's writing
- Title
- Infiltrating culture : power and identity in contemporary women's writing / Mireille Rosello.
- Author
- Rosello, Mireille.
- Publication
- Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PQ307.I54 R67 1996 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 205 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- The infiltrator may be a foreigner, a spy, a child, a cleaner, a woman. Like Donna Haraway's cyborg or Michel Serres' parasite, the figure of the infiltrator offers a powerful new way of articulating cultural difference and cultural practice. Issues of gender, race and age are all addressed in a subtle and forceful close reading of a series of texts - from Claire Bretecher's sharp-edged cartoons to Colette's recipes, from the diary of a Martinican cleaning lady to the James Bond thrillers. Mireille Rosello's analysis explodes the notion of binary oppositions: the insider/outsider, black/white, straight/queer, rich/poor, solid/fluid. The infiltrator, she argues, is an ambivalent figure, one who penetrates a closed territory only to expose the fantasy upon which power relations are founded. Rosello's lucid and passionate engagement with theories of multiculturalism and hybridity marks this as a major step forward in the field of cultural theory. As a critique of power, it is a seminal text and will be impossible to ignore.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Geschichte 1949-1990
- French literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Identity (Psychology) in literature
- Feminism in literature
- National characteristics, French, in literature
- French literature
- Französisch
- Frauenliteratur
- Kulturelle Identität
- Schriftstellerin
- Nationale identiteit
- Feminisme
- Letterkunde
- Frans
- Frankreich
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Preface -- Introduction: From community to departenance: The rhetorics and politics of a metaphor (starting p. 1) -- Introduction: From community to departenance: Infiltration, identities and communities (starting p. 15) -- Introduction: From community to departenance: A word on the corpus (starting p. 18) -- 1 Claire Bretecher's Les Frustres: Why do little boys play with washing machines and why do little girls lie about it? (starting p. 23) -- 2 Francoise Ega's Lettres a une noire: The cleaning lady as ethnographer: working, giving and writing (starting p. 53) -- 3 Michele Maillet's L'Etoile noire: Infiltrating concentration camp logic (starting p. 81) -- 4 Colette's Prisons et paradis and Sand's recipes: Reading a recipe book in bed or the de-appropriation of feminine work (starting p. 107) -- 5 Renee Vivien's La Dame a la louve and Une Femme m'apparut: 'Why should I swallow a toad?: self-defeating gender reversals (starting p. 146) -- Conclusion: James Bond as civil servant: the limits of infiltration (starting p. 181) -- Bibliography (starting p. 193) -- Index (starting p. 201)
- ISBN
- 0719048753
- 9780719048753
- LCCN
- 95033690
- OCLC
- ocm33101095
- 33101095
- SCSB-9142086
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library