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Zarathustra's sisters : women's autobiography and the shaping of cultural history

Title: Zarathustra's sisters : women's autobiography and the shaping of cultural history / Susan Ingram.
Author: Ingram, Susan (Susan V.)
Publication: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2003.

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Description

viii, 197 pages : portraits; 24 cm

Summary

"Although the names Mandel'shtam and Nijinsky more commonly evoke the Russian poet and the ballet dancer, their wives, Nadezhda and Ramola, are also beginning to attract attention. Similarly, the lives and works of Simone de Beauvoir, Lou Andreas-Salome, Asja Lacis, and Maitreyi Devi, long represented as having been dominated by their association with some of the most important men of Western letters, are now coming into their own. These six women all wrote the stories of their own lives, creating powerful narratives that channelled cultural forces at the same time as parrying them. Susan Ingram analyses the literary, cultural, and ethical effects of these writers, whose lives were intertwined with the cultural vibrations of their time, and who heralded the postmodern in having to negotiate their subject positions in the form of a relational autonomy, an ethical sense of alterity, and a strong desire to intervene in the cultures of their times."--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Lou Andreas-Salomé -- Simone de Beauvoir -- Maitreyi Devi -- Asja Lacis -- Nadezhda Mandel'shtam -- Romola Nijinsky.

ISBN

0802036902
9780802036902

LCCN

2003282057

OCLC

ocm49602036
49602036
SCSB-1285800

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library