Research Catalog

Title

The name of the mother : writing illegitimacy / Marie Maclean.

Author

Maclean, Marie.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Derrida, Jacques
• Derrida copy Library of Jacques Derrida (Princeton University Library) NjP

Found In

Derrida copy 99125489805106421 folder 20

Description

xi, 269 pages; 23 cm

Summary

• In this original and highly accomplished study, Marie Maclean studies the writings of social rebels and explores the relationship between their personal narratives and illegitimacy. The case studies which Maclean examines fall into four groups: those which stress alternative family structures and 'female genealogies'; those which pair female illegitimacy and revolution; those which question the deliberate refusal of the name of the father by the legitimate and those which study the revenge of genius on the society which excludes it.
• Skilfully interweaving feminist theory, French literary criticism, social and cultural history, deconstruction and psychoanalytic theory, Maclean traces the place of these personal narratives of illegitimacy in history and their use in theory, from Elizabeth I to Freud, Sartre and Derrida. The Name of the Mother will be of vital interest and importance to any student of critical theory, feminist philosophy, French or cultural studies.

Subject

• Literature > Philosophy
• Literature and society
• Autobiography > Women authors
• Illegitimacy in literature
• Feminism and literature
• Femmes > Attitudes
• Femmes écrivains
• Autobiographie
• Littérature et société
• Littérature > Philosophie
• Féminisme > Dans la littérature

Genre/Form

Insertions (Provenance)

Note

• Includes manuscript material. Dealer note: Trois lettres de l'auteur à Derrida et une photographie. Check-in observation: Letter from Hector Maclean (husband of author) to Derrida, dated 9 January 1995, tipped in. Letter from Marie Maclean to Derrida tipped in. Second letter from Hector Maclean to Derrida tipped in with photograph of author.
• Stored in box B-000553. Forms part of: The Library of Jacques Derrida, House Series. House. Gift Books, Works By and About Derrida, and Related Items.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 244-258) and index.

Contents

1. Performances of exclusion -- 2. Myth and psychoanalysis: legitimate and illegitimate. The traditional mythology of the exception. The Freudian attempt to universalise the particular. The private uses of mythology -- 3. Mythical histories, historical myths -- 4. A female genealogy: the en-gendering of George Sand -- 5. Opposition and revolution: Olympe de Gouges and the rights of the dispossessed -- 6. The male/female Messiah: Flora Tristan -- 7. My mother the Revolution: Louise Michel -- 8. Symbolic delegitimation. Stendhal and the mother's line. Nerval and the maternal space. Three Baudelairean narratives. Sartre the 'faux-batard' -- 9. 'Better to reign in Hell ... '. Giving birth to my grandmother: Leduc.

ISBN

• 0415106869
• 9780415106863

LCCN

93034974

OCLC

• ocm29185144
• 29185144
• SCSB-2018106

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library