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N'Guessan, Kouadio Germain. "Féminisme africain-américain et féminisme africain : incidences et limites d'un dialogue par romans interposés." Tours, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004TOUR2004.
Full textThe work analyses Black women's oppression in the fiction of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrisson, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall and Buchi Emecheta, Flora Nwapa, Mariama Bâ, Bessie Head, Ama Ata Aidoo. It shows that in America, this oppression is related to racism, sexism and to class. In Africa, it stems from colonialism and neocolonialism, from tradition and religious conceptions, and also from the new world economic order. The analysis of these situations of oppression puts forward a "black feminism" which aims at constructing Black women's identity through their relations to traditional values : ancestral beliefs, motherhood as a means of social integration, etc. It thus establishes "black feminism" as a manifestation of the North/South dialogue. It is also a feminist interpretation of Panafricanism since it tries to bring together two peoples that have been separated yet share the same origin. However, the heterogeneity of women's situations creates utopias which are shaped according to the specificity of women's situations but fall under the general perpective of women's subordination and their struggle for its eradication
Herbert, Catherine Deming. "Féminisme et féminité dans l'œuvre de Jules Laforgue." Montpellier 3, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009MON30009.
Full textIn the final decades of the nineteenth century, as Romanticism waned and was replaced by various movements such as Parnassianism, Decadence, and Symbolism, a poet emerged who was to have an influence on literature in France and abroad that far exceeds his short life. Before his death in 1887 at the age of 27, Jules Laforgue spent most of his writing career in Berlin, where he met his future wife, the Englishwoman Leah Lee, and where he wrote the majority of his poetry and prose. These same years also marked an evolution of the portrayal of women in literature, the misogyny of poets such as Baudelaire gradually being replaced by an optimistic willingness to empower women by giving them a voice and allowing them some control over their destiny. Jules Laforgue played an important role in this literary development, and his work reflects the sexist prejudices of his time, which he left behind in order to embrace a vision of women as the companion and equal of men, whether in a fraternal or romantic sense. Laforgue, sensitive to artistic and literary tendencies, took on popular subjects of his day – Salomé, Ophelia, the femme fatale, the female vampire, the Eternal Feminine – and put his own stamp on them through a mixture of parody, irony, anachronism, and feminist ideas. The silent, powerless women of the earlier poems discover, especially in the Moral Tales and the Last Verse, a voice and a determination which can lead to their death (Salomé) or the fulfillment brought by free will and true love (Andromeda). While Laforgue was never an outspoken feminist, he made a major contribution to the literary evolution of women in the years leading up to the twentieth century
Luan, Hesha. "Deux générations de femmes : une étude comparative entre les littératures et les théories féminines françaises et chinoises (1958-2005)." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AIXM0097.
Full textSince the French Revolution, which foreshadows modern feminism, more than two centuries have passed, women’s status has changed profoundly on a world scale. We distinguish three generations of women: universalist, differentialist and postmodernist. The present work aims to study the first two generations of women in France and China in contemporary times, as well as the literary representations of feminism in both cultures. This thesis studies the literary parallels and the influences. By confronting French and Chinese feminist literatures and theories, we will try to examine if they raise the same questions: what are the contributions and the difficulties of each generation, and what are the invariants of each of the two female generations which took place almost at the same time, but in two different spaces. In addition, a study of influences reveals the reception of French feminist literatures and theories in China
Allal, Marina. "Littérature et discours social : regards croisés sur la construction des altérités juive et féminine à Paris, Berlin et Vienne, de la fin du XIXe siècle à l’entre-deux-guerres." Paris 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA030125.
Full textThis thesis examines literary translations in the light of anti-Semitic and anti-feminist representations which are analysed according to an expression of an anti-modernist cultural code. This code, which expressed a discomfort with modernism through a number of grand metaphors, underwent significant transformation throughout the period; this transformation is reflected in various degrees in literary texts, depending on their positioning in the literary field. In spite of country-specific developments, a comparative approach reveals profound similarities in this pan-European phenomenon. Whilst the connection between anti-feminism and anti-semitism can be shown to constitute a profound integral feature of these ostracist discourses, a consideration of the various dimensions of the social discourse allows us to highlight the particularities of the individual literary texts, their specific ambiguities and strategies of differentiation
Gafaiti, Abdelhafid. "Le discours sur les femmes dans le roman algérien : féminisme, écriture et idéologie." Paris 13, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA131030.
Full textThe aim of this thesis is to analyse the evolution of women's status is both the algerian society and literature. In an attempt to transcend the thematic approches, it consists in a conciliation of the study of writing and meaning from a sociocritical and intertextual perspective in order to analyse the discourse on women. Consiering the works of benhedouga, lemsine, djebar and boudjedra in particular, written in arabic or in french, it explores the opposed discourses on women and reaches the conclusion that women are at the core of a problematics linking history and literature. The results demonstrate that the position of women moved from a sociological passivity caracterized by an objectivation in the literary field to a position as a subject producer of both history and discourse. The emergence of a new female character and a productive myth through its inscription in modernity and the taking over of the text itself by a femine perspective illustrate the fact that women have become the agents of both history and text. In this process, writing consists in a reading of history
Ayangma, André. "Femme, féminité, féminisme dans l'oeuvre de Jules Vallès." Bordeaux 3, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998BOR30012.
Full textTemsamani, Hafsa. "Par-delà le féminisme, le féminisme musulman? le cas de l'écriture-femmes en Arabie Saoudite, 1958-2008." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209634.
Full textDans les études sur le féminisme et le genre, l’Arabie Saoudite, il est vrai, constitue « une énigme ». Et c’est précisément ce qui nous a incité à explorer cet univers « voilé » dont nous allons, au gré de notre étude, tenter de « dévoiler » un tant soit peu le mystère.
Nous avons entrepris dans ce but une recherche approfondie à propos de l’écriture-femmes saoudienne romanesque depuis son essor en 1958 jusqu’à 2008. Ce sont donc cinquante années d’écriture-femmes saoudienne sur lesquelles nous nous pencherons au cours de notre étude. Le lecteur l’aura compris :le fil conducteur de notre recherche reposera sur l’écriture en tant que vecteur de prise de conscience féministe.
En définitive, ce travail se composera donc de trois grandes parties, chacune subdivisée en chapitres. Dans la première partie, nous développerons la question du féminisme en rapport avec l’islam. Le premier chapitre exposera le féminisme et le genre en tant qu’approche méthodologique des discours et des arguments féministes. Le deuxième chapitre traitera de la question de l’islam et de la laïcité. En effet, pour la plupart des pays musulmans, l’islam est une religion d’Etat. La charia est la source principale du droit, voire exclusive dans certains pays, comme en Arabie Saoudite où elle est considérée comme complète, suprême, supérieure à toute loi. Logiquement, une autre question surgira, celle qui sous-tend le troisième chapitre de cette première partie, au cours duquel nous nous demanderons si un « féminisme musulman » représente une réalité vraiment envisageable. La deuxième partie sera censée investiguer le contexte idéologique en vigueur en Arabie Saoudite. Ensuite, nous évoquerons une esquisse de la littérature en Arabie Saoudite et les orientations des écrivains saoudiens et saoudiennes. La troisième partie se centrera sur une analyse thématique de l’écriture-femmes romanesque saoudienne s’étalant sur une période allant de 1958 à 2008. Nous nous étendrons d’abord sur un panorama de cette écriture dans les contrées en général, avant d’aborder les thématiques les plus spécifiques de cette écriture, approuvant qu’il s’agisse d’un pays encore très mystérieux aux yeux des étrangers: l’Arabie Saoudite.
Il apparaîtra qu’une parenté certaine entre « écriture » et « militantisme féministe » sous-tend, à l’évidence, l’univers romanesque des femmes saoudiennes. En clair, l’apport de l’écriture-femmes saoudienne a été considérable :elle nous a offert une peinture vivante de l’Arabie Saoudite et de la condition féminine. Elle contribue à l’émergence d’un style de militantisme marqué par son berceau saoudien et, de ce fait, elle participe à l’avènement d’un féminisme proprement saoudien.
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Eychenne, Anne-Marie. "L'affirmation féminine dans les littératures française et anglo-saxonne du 15ème au 20ème siècle." Bordeaux 3, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991BOR30020.
Full textThrough women writers' literary texts from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, we study the different stages of french and anglo-saxon women's intellectual emancipation and we think over the possible particular nature of women's writing. In the first part, through the general theme of unsatisfaction and the themes of education, social life and love, we analyse what we call a literature of protest, pointing out its necessity and also its limits. In the second part, we see how women writers managed to get free, how they became self-confident as they began to speak, how they used their new freedom. They found a poetic phrase which enabled them to express the " stream of their consciouness " and the beauty of their inner life; women could at last give utterance to their " ego ". Getting rid of men opinions and values, they were able to fond in themselves their own identuty. Beyond any sexual category, they wanted to participate to the universal adventure of thought and their texts proved as exemplary as any text written by a man
Rundgren, Heta. "Vers une théorie du roman postnormâle : féminisme, réalisme et conflit sexuel chez Doris Lessing, Märta Tikkanen, Stieg Larsson et Virginie Despentes." Thesis, Paris 8, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA080145/document.
Full textSituated at the intersection between comparative literature and gender studies, this dissertation theorizes what I term the postnormâle novel. It deploys readings of four contemporary European novels along with a corpus of literary and feminist theory. The novels include Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook (1962), Märta Tikkanen’s Manrape (1975), Stieg Larsson’s Millenium trilogy or The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005-2007) and Virginie Despentes’s Apocalypse baby (2010). My analysis of these texts examines the way in which the postnormâle novel reclaims social discourses of sexual difference for a mass audience while subtly displacing realist conventions in order to inscribe women’s—or lesbians’—experience of sexual conflict into the text. A four step process is used to study the work. First, I anchor the novels to a “realist real”, and study the function of detail within the postnormâle aesthetic. Then I chart the sociogram ’feminism’ in the novels and their reception. Thirdly, I read the narrative of what I call “counter-rape”, and lastly the inscription of woman-desire and the figuration—the constitution even—of entr’elles, a feminist space. The perspective of my study is postmodern, which implies a suspension—but not a disbelief—of the twofold question of literary status and literary evaluation, in order to focus on texts in their contexts. In this process, I aim to rethink the link between the notions of the feminine and the queer in light of contemporary feminist and lesbian perspectives
Shehadeh, Samira. ""La femme atwoodienne" : étude de l'influence du féminisme sur la femme contemporaine à travers les protagonistes de Margaret Atwood." Paris 4, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA040111.
Full textThis thesis aims to define the Atwoodian woman. The association of the feminist movement with Atwood’s work seems essential and highly pertinent to such a project. We shall therefore determine the evolution of the author’s version of feminism and its fields of experiementation, followed by this analysis of the reciprocal influence between feminist theory and Canadian writer. We will consider the allusions and references to the women’s movement in her work, both in terms of inspiration as well as a critique of the discourse. In addition to Atwood’s interest in feminism, this study shall also be concerned with the relationship between her female protagonists and the cause. This ppaper will examine how the different facets of the feminist movement relative to real desires of women have led the author to use her characters as illustrations of “ordinary women” whose daily lives are often neglected by the movement ‘elite. The comments of several literary and feminist critics along with those sociologists and psychoanalysts shall contribute to the study of these ambiguous interactions, in order to develop a relevant definition of the Atwoodian woman
Mbazoo, Kassa Chantal Magalie. "La femme et ses images dans le roman gabonais." Cergy-Pontoise, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999CERG0061.
Full textTremblay, Audrey. "Mixité et égalité dans le champ éditorial québécois. Étude des compositions des maisons d'édition contemporaines et catalogues. (1995-2005)." Mémoire, Université de Sherbrooke, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11143/5882.
Full textWanjala, Alex Nelungo, and Alex Nelungo Wanjala. "L'émergence et le développement de la voix féminine dans la littérature kenyane postcoloniale." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00947771.
Full textBarei, Tahereh. "Evolution du sujet féminin dans les oeuvres de Erica Jong (à travers Fear of flying, Fanny, Parachute and kisses et Serenissima)." Paris 8, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA081633.
Full textWanjala, Alex Nelungo. "L'émergence et le développement de la voix féminine dans la littérature kenyane postcoloniale." Thesis, Paris 3, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA030173/document.
Full textThis study of Kenyan literature, which focuses specifically on female writers, is based on the premise that female writers, though prolific, have for a long time been neglected by literary critics, and even when focused upon, are lumped together with other so-called ‘Third world’ female writers. Thus, the idiosyncrasies in their particular works are very often overlooked. This study seeks to correct this by undertaking an in-depth study of each of the novels explored, while at the same time using each of them to undertake a study of the Kenyan society with particular attention to the situation of the woman as depicted in the texts. The novel, which is here the primary source, is examined as a cultural tool. Given the large number of novels that have been written by Kenyan women writers, this study uses a case-oriented methodology to select a few novels that are used as representative samples for Kenyan writing by women. The texts selecte! d cover a long time period; published from the mid-sixties just after Kenya’s independence, to the outset of the present millennium. The study is guided by theories that are drawn from postcolonial studies, cultural studies, and gender studies. It is our hope that this study gives a comprehensive state of the art survey on the Kenyan novel, with a specific focus on the state of the Kenyan woman, thus clearing the way for similar studies to be carried out on women writers not only in Kenya, but in the other countries in the East African region and the African continent at large
Barrett, Caroline. "Une lecture féministe et bakhtinienne de l'oeuvre romanesque de Francine Noël, une traversée des apparences." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq38301.pdf.
Full textIezzi, Anna Rita. "La pensée en narrations : différence sexuelle et poétique de la relation chez Nancy Huston." Paris 8, 2013. http://octaviana.fr/document/179723391#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0.
Full textThis thesis hypothesizes that literary creation, being the ground of a no-structured and undeveloped thought, without any aim to become a generalizing and closed system, allows to put questions and to give several anthropological and cultural interpretations about the human being and the world. Therefore this thesis proposes an analysis of Nancy Huston’s work, novelist of the extreme contemporary, connecting a current feminist perspective on sexual difference with ethical issues and contemporary politics; both referring to the displacement of identity and cultural borders. My work is based on heterogeneous critical sources and reflections: on the one hand the deconstruction post-structuralist notion which lays down the ground for discussions about binary and universalist thought whereas on the other hand stay feminist thinkers inspired by Hanna Arendt’ thought which stresses the value of singularity belonging to a plural community of different beings. Far from reaching a synthesis between these positions Huston’s work appears as an example of articulation of these issues in which both the questioning of sexual difference and poetic relationship are redefined through a practice of thought at work in the literary text
Carton-Vincent, Alison. "Écriture du corps et féminismes : genre, sexualité et maternité dans l’oeuvre narrative à la première personne de Dacia Maraini." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM3034.
Full textWith the rise of neo-feminism in Italy in the end of the 1960's, a new literary genre quickly developed: the feminist novel. The first-person narrative was frequently used to portray women who fought against an oppressing patriarchal society from which they tried to get free. From her first works, Dacia Maraini followed this narrative style. She provided its most famous examples (especially in Donna in guerra, in 1975) and she guaranteed its propagation – even after the end of activist feminism in the 1980's – through works that were not as ideologically engaged as the first ones but that still aimed at denouncing inequalities. Halfway between literary creation and political commitment, the first person feminist narrative of Dacia Maraini particularly focuses on the topic of the body, as a link between one and the others, between the personal and the political. I will study the 1962-2001 period, and I will show how the author concentrates on the territories of gender, sexuality and motherhood and how she questions them through fiction and autobiographical stories. I choose a multidisciplinary perspective that takes the tools of both literary analysis and the history of ideas, in order to analyse the use of the first person as a specific enunciative modality and as a performative instrument for the propagation of Marainian feminism in a circular relationship between arts and society, between culture and power
Bergeron, Marie-Andrée. ""Nous avons voulu parler de nous" : le discours éditorial des féministes québécoises (1972-1987) dans Québécoises deboutte!, Les têtes de pioche et La Vie en rose." Thesis, Université Laval, 2013. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2013/29982/29982.pdf.
Full textThis thesis explores the feminist’s editorial speech among three well-known feminist magazines of Quebec which are Québécoises deboutte!, Les têtes de pioche and La Vie en rose in order to understand the strategies and the posture of the feminists. Feminists adapt their rhetorics in order to define a movement that builds itself through a collective speech which is evolving as the sociopolitical context of Quebec in the seventies is. We have been able to observe three major tendencies among the texts. First of all, Québécoises deboutte! builds a speech to wrap up the different forms of activism together and to obtain the attention of potential allies who may be between the marxist and the counter-cultural poles. Secondly, Les têtes de pioche orients its speech toward a specifically feminist zone in order to distinguish itself from the other social fights. That magazine also works to explain and fight by using words the specific oppression of women. And finally, La Vie en rose presents itself as the standard bearer of the plurality of the feminist voices, showing at the same time the wins of radical feminism and the hopes of a new generation of feminists. In Quebec, the rise of the feminist magazines is an integral part of a social perspective which shows us the implication of the feminists in the fields of culture, philosophy and literature. Our research develops in two complementary parts which try to show the mechanism of the feminist speech by analyzing the content of different magazines and the evolution of this literature of ideas in an internal way (speech) and an external (field effects) one. Through twenty years of textual activism, we see that the editorial approach of the feminists forms a consistent whole. The journalistic efforts of feminism reveal an internal cohesion that consolidates itself year after year to, ultimately, become a system of ideas – and rhetorical – which is unique and into which the argumentation is mainly based on the ethos. Our thesis particularly study the literary aspects of the texts, the rise of the feminist press as a phenomenon that goes beyond the paper – because it concerns the history and the constitution of the literary field – the social and the formal problematics that are related to it.
Grué, Mélanie. "Grotesque «queer» et savoirs abjects dans l’oeuvre de Dorothy Allison." Thesis, Paris Est, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PEST0013.
Full textBorn in a white trash milieu, a victim of incest, lesbian and queer, Dorothy Allison belongs to the new generation of writers who, since the 1980s, have troubled the American literary and political landscape. Overflowing with grotesque characters, whose physical deformity mirrors the social, sexual and gender norms underlying the dominant discourses that silence the deviant individual, the author’s work is nevertheless a space where inferior subjects (the poor, women, the abused child, homosexuals), defined by society as being abject, can speak. This research focuses on the connections between literature and theory, and on the political significance of Dorothy Allison’s testimony, here considered as a theorizing narrative. Using subject theory, class and race studies, autobiography criticism and queer theory, we shall explain how the literary text passes on the inferior individual’s claims, enacts the subject’s self-assertion, and transmits the “abject knowledge” which disrupts the norms. This research aims at re-reading and rethink various theories through the literary work which appropriates the grotesque mode of representation and grants the material body and the senses a central place. The fictionalized testimony makes bodily language paramount, interrogates established hierarchies and glorifies the intense humanity of discredited individuals
Gendras, Eva. "Les femmes et la culture à travers la littérature française du XVIIème siècle." Rouen, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994ROUEL193.
Full textThe aim of this thesis is to study the role of women in the seventeenth century through French literature and to analyse their involvement in social, political and artistic matters, as well as their reactions, however limited they may have been. The first part deals with their outward appearance or more precisely with the woman's body. Then their legal status and their status as married women or working women are put under scruting. The third part considers the role women played throughout the two french regencies and the fronde. The fourth part examines how they fought to have access to culture, through education and art. The last two parts are more particularly concerned with the literary aspect of the subject, dealing with female writers and the feminist quarrel among the seventeenth writers. Feminism had developed in a society dominated by men, so that it had to be "tolerated" by them. This supremacy eventually led to the confrontation of opposing forces whose clash brought about the disintegration of the culture of the seventeenth century. This was how a more complete social reality could be grasped and the figure of the female being could enverge from it
Kouchkar, Ferchouli Fatma-Zohra. "L'écriture d’Assia Djebar, une traduction de la parole féminine." Paris 8, 2011. http://octaviana.fr/document/159661382#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0.
Full textProceeding from the fact that Assia Djebar French writing is indeed putting a non-French parole into writing, this piece of research aims at demonstrating that this parole/writing is the result of a double translation: - Writing/translation of orality - Writing/translation of Arabic, sometimes Berber, feminine parlance. Therefore, it was necessary to lean on the enunciative approach to demonstrate that these assumptions are well founded, in so far as it enables to highlight the discursive strategies adopted by the writer in order to reproduce the feminine parole as well as the narrative polyphony that results from undertaking this (i. E. Feminine voices). The interpretative translatological approach (also called Theory of Sense), however, enables to show the manner translation reproduces this parole taking into account the « letter » as meant by Antoine Berman (see his book La traduction et la lettre ou l’auberge du lointain) as well as rhythm in the sense meant by Henri Meschonnic (see mainly La rime et la vie and Jona ou le signifiant errant). Reproducing the feminine parole through double themes: eye expression and voice, translation of feminine comments by reproducing the letter (calques, borrowings, literal translation …), through the reproduction of rhythm => "poetic statements". The impact of this translation/reproduction of feminine parole on language yields a parole/writing or an orature writing whose characteristics come under the spoken style as well as the oral formalized register
Turbiau, Aurore. "Pensées et pratiques féministes de l'engagement littéraire (France, Québec, 1969-1985)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2023. https://accesdistant.sorbonne-universite.fr/login?url=https://theses-intra.sorbonne-universite.fr/2023SORUL078.pdf.
Full textThis thesis aims to examine, in the light of the notion of literary engagement, the political thoughts and practices of literature put into play by writers of the women's liberation movement in France and Quebec between 1969 and 1985. It focuses on a vast corpus of women writers, including Nicole Brossard, France Théoret, Louky Bersianik, and Madeleine Gagnon in Quebec, and Monique Wittig, Hélène Cixous, Françoise d'Eaubonne and Christiane Rochefort in France. As heirs to the existentialist theories that preceded and accompanied them, these writers reenvision the primarily ethical and critical dimension of literary engagement, opposing the authoritarian principle of “roman à thèse” writing. In various ways, they renew the notion of “situation”, central to the thought of Jean-Paul Sartre as much as Simone de Beauvoir, and forge several concepts at the crossroads of the political, the epistemological, and the poetic - in particular by re-problematizing the notions of subject, action and recognition, and history, key concepts in canonical literary engagement. Questioning the identity of “woman” that describes their position in the social and literary space, these writers also create and elaborate on the concept of “gender” from their specific point of view. They deploy and reorient the oppositions articulated at the time between literary engagement and the avant-garde, often disqualifying them and thinking of them in terms of utopian imaginaries that are half-pragmatic, half-idealistic; they question the place that violence and insolence can occupy in new literary politics, whose aesthetics of rupture are also largely projects of foundation and bonding between women - in so doing, they also scrutinise the dimension of their work that is sometimes said to be “unreadable” and challenge this reproach, turning it into a pledge of dialogue with the literary history of modernity
Fente, Elvira. "María Xosé Queizán, la renaissance d'une Antigone : l'esprit d'Antigone dans les personnages féminins de l'œuvre de María Xosé Queizán : métaphore de la valeur et la force de la femme galicienne contre le pouvoir et la domination masculine." Paris 8, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA083485.
Full textThis work aims to give María Xosé Queizán its rightful place as a theorist of feminism as a writer and Galician feminist. The socio-cultural construction of "being woman" is analyzed here through his speech, since the years after the Spanish Civil War, to today's society. The myth of Antigone appeared to us as the myth that comes to Queizán, the birth of feminism in Galicia long identified with Penelope. Transmission of patriarchal values through women who honor the system blindly, as opposed to the spirit of freedom of Antigone is a constant in her novels. The darkness in the formation and development of the domestic work of women is ensuring the survival of patriarchy. But in counterpoint, one can follow individual strategies of heroines around obstacles and sometimes become marginalized and lose, sometimes win and live their freedom
Jimenez, Lidia. "L'adolescente dans la littérature espagnole de la "Posguerra"." Toulouse 2, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996TOU20076.
Full textIn spanish fiction and particularly in the kind of written fiction by women-novelists after the civil war, teenagers are often drawn. We feel we are confronted with real, genuine portraits while, before readers had to be content with mere tentative sketches ; indeed in the fiction published, at that time, the very young girls and also the young ladies they often had grown into,take up stances which are surprisingly new. Infact their creators thus achieve a kind of perfection in that respect, insisting, as they do, on the adolescent period of their fictitions feminine characters. Spanish women-writers often insists on the particular period of time of adolescence for their heroins, often imparted their own most intimate hidden, convictions, and are naturally nourished with foreign models but it was also fraught with their own knowledge of death, and love, acquired during the various wars they had gone through. The consequence is the portraying of adolescent characters as drawn by spanish fiction writers ans the reader feels that many personal memories break through the bedrock of the tales that are told. For instance, rosa chacel during all that period does draw such a character in teresa and memorias de leticia valle. In nada and la isla y los demonios carmen laforet renews the genre making conveying to them the shock it was for most people. Ana maria matute writes short stories and in luciernagas tells the memories of a teenager of that time. Carmen martin gaite writes short stories about meregirls and young ladies while reflecting
Sahuc, Janine-Claude. "Kate Millett : oeuvres et mythes." Paris 7, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985PA070116.
Full textArès, Mathieu. "A paradigm of Earth : traduction performative et science-fiction queer." Mémoire, Université de Sherbrooke, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11143/11595.
Full textAbstract : Utopia is often used in feminist and queer literature, because it is a genre which questions some categories such as sex and gender representations. Science fiction concerns utopia since it provides cognitive estrangement, a concept that deconstructs gender binarism in feminist and queer utopias. Cognitive estrangement introduces a novum, a destabilizing element based on the author’s created reality, and shared by the reader (Suvin, 2010 : 68). The novum is a narratological device that so dominates its fiction that every science fiction narrative aspect derives from it (Csicsery-Ronay, Jr, 2008 : 49); this novum influences the translation process because the translator must reinsert it in a new context. Since the only studies which can be found today on translation in queer science fiction are generally dedicated to the reception of translation strategies (Bérard, 2015), this work situates translation within a performative approach. Translation is performative; it provides a viability to the text in another language-culture, another context. In studying an excerpt of Canadian Candas Jane Dorsey’s queer science fiction novel A Paradigm of Earth (2001), as well as my translation of it, my objective with this thesis is to consider how some translation paradigm shifts can be made according to feminist (Lotbinière-Harwood, 1991; Simon, 1996; Von Flotow, 1997 et 1999) and queer translation precepts (Louar, 2008; Larkosh, 2011; Casagranda, 2013). This work takes into consideration gender designations, which in Dorsey’s novel ensue from the character Blue, the ungendered alien; Blue represents the novum in A Paradigm of Earth, which allows the translator to take a performative approach in order to deconstruct gender binarism in French.
Parouty-David, Françoise. "Le récit d'émancipation féminin de 1968 à 1990 : un genre." Limoges, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993LIMO0501.
Full textThe cointemporary feminine narrative of emancipation exemplifies a necessary reworking of established literary genre such as the bildungsroman : - surface structures are characterized by the narrative program of discontinuance in the feminine subject's construction. This individual transformation process enters in a wider project of social transformation towards flexibility in sexual roles. - the discourse is a stream of consciousness where ubiquity in tenses allows to test the conditions of this transormation in mirror effcts, voices confrontations and intertextuality which enrich the text in a founer exertion of memory. - traditional values are disputed to generate an open ideology to go beyond cultural dichotomies, especially in denouncing linguistic sexism and in trying to find a new language. The corpus is constituted of women's narratives in which a narrator-author tells and analyses her own emancipation, that's to say her own struggle against existing constrains in social and sexual mores, paradiglmatic narrative in women history during the seventies. She builds her identity writting in a specific field which squares with a feminine expectation. This genre is tenmporarly closed. 3
Carvalho, Pauline. "L'autofiction en contexte postcolonial : regards croisés sur les femmes dans un processus mouvant de reconquête identitaire." Thesis, Besançon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016BESA1008.
Full textIn the field of postcolonial literature, women autofictions deserve special attention. Indeed, the migrant woman is in a literary double margin as a migrant but also as a woman and sometimes even as a minority.Our comparative study is based on a variety of literary materials (essay, comics and novel) and tries to show how these authors from diverse background illustrate the cultural and the linguistic passage of migrant women and the important role they play concerning the legacy of female historical and collective memory.Also, this study questions the existence of a gender identity that is part of the cultural baggage of women and the response of the characters representing migrant authors in front of an agreed identity. This is, in part, though the theme of transformation that characters reveal new possibilities and definitions of “being a woman”
Boucly-Lesage, Aurore. "Les écritures du féminin dans l'oeuvre de Marguerite Duras." Amiens, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007AMIE0018.
Full textMarchais, Nathalie. "La figure maternelle dans la littérature féminine italienne des quarante dernières années." Thesis, Paris 10, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA100231/document.
Full textSince feminism emerged in the seventies, women writers have occupied an increasingly important place in the Italian literary panorama. Among the most dealt with subjects, those of the mother and motherhood have been of constant interest. Far from reproducing the usual stereotype of the Italian mamma, women writers have contributed to a progressive deconstruction of the myths inherent to that central figure of the culture and society. The seventies were characterized by the refusal of motherhood as a natural vocation of women, in connection with the feminist claims to own and control their own bodies, (abortion right, development of contraception, revision of the family law). In the eighties and until the middle of the nineties, the theme of the mother-daughter relationship imposed itself as a rehabilitation of the mothers of the past. The autobiography asserted itself at that stage under other forms. Since the middle of the nineties and until today, the new generation of women writers has tended to turn the mother of the narrative into a tormented, maladapted and unstable woman, even a monstrous being who fails to play her role, and puts her children’s lives in danger. This might be the reason why some heroines actually make the choice not to become mothers. Among the women writers studied: Dacia Maraini, Carla Cerati, Giuliana Ferri, Gina Lagorio, Francesca Duranti, Francesca Sanvitale, Fausta Cialente, Elena Ferrante, Simona Vinci, Letizia Muratori, Alina Marazzi, Cristina Comencini
Tilly, Eva. "María de Zayas : une conscience féminine dans l'Espagne du Siècle d'or." Caen, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008CAEN1515.
Full textRaby, Claudia. "Le parcours critique de Jeanne Lapointe." Thesis, Université Laval, 2007. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2007/24961/24961.pdf.
Full textBouchemal, Kamila. "Épistémologies et écritures du corps postcolonial dans les œuvres de Gisèle Pineau, Malika Mokeddem et Jamaica Kincaid." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA080024.
Full textThis thesis proposes a new aesthetic of the female body through the analysis of texts of three migrant contemporary authors: Malika Mokeddem, Gisèle Pineau and Jamaica Kincaid. Postcolonial and feminist reading of the three authors reveal a body deficiency. The study of their works shows a body in crisis. Therefore, it is urgent to historicize it, but also to reinvent it.This thesis undertakes an epistemological reflection in their texts, in order to re-work the body. It aims at putting the female body into History, replacing it in the memory, remaking the genealogies and renewing the affiliations, reviving the women’s network and revolutionizing the subject of transmission. The analysis of mechanisms and tools of race and gender domination, helps to understand the different forms of resistance, and to identify the different exit strategies. Finally this work proposes to renew the body by diverting the discursive power and the patriarchal and imperialist rhetoric, through a counter-speech, decolonized and depatriarchalized. And also reinvent the body out of the dialectic of power, opening a postbody space/language
Naudier, Delphine. "La cause littéraire des femmes : modes d'accès et modalités de consécration des femmes dans le champ littéraire (1970-1998)." Paris, EHESS, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000EHES0127.
Full textLequy, Anne. ""Ubehaust" ? : die thematik des topos in werken wenig(er) bekannter DDR-autorinnen der siebziger und achtziger jahre : eine feministiche untersuchung." Metz, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999METZ010L.
Full textMachoud, Nivon Corinne. "Rituel de l'écriture et métamorphoses du miroir : traductions au féminin de/avec Carmen Boullosa." Paris 8, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA081132.
Full textBy using the context of the mexican author carmen boullosa (1954), this thesis proposes a discourse without innocence, reinventing the "facts" of the mexica(no(a)) passage, creating the metamorphoses of two fields : "mexican and feminism," crossing the limits and displacing them in a baroque universe where the coherence of the discourse is substituted by "feminin" and "seduction ;" in other words, it exists a constant "trans(e)duction" of the passage between "mexica(no(a)). " the approach of this work consists in naming the translations of these "transitions, thresholds or processes," and placing them in a "constant future" or in a memory of constant reinvention, taking away the concepts of origen, history or identity. The translation, pre-text, speaks of "she" without speaking, if it does not speak of "something" displacing the spectrum of i eye, creating a discourse in constant process. This thesis explores the (im)posible translations of the sign "female" by "deconstruing" narcissus, displacing him spatially in a second movement, and bringing him to precolombian america within the shifter "nahual. " "she," the pronoun projected, the "novel," the translation, the metaphore, migrates from mirror to mirror, from mexican land to nowhere. "she," the passage from land to land in the absence of "mother-land," migrating as a ghost, begins the transoceanic journey of the translation, the "transliteration," the "transmigrations," the "trans(e)ductions. " "she," i, narcissus, nahual, the translation of the translation, without origen, the trace of the trace, as a boat leaves the port with the ritual of writing
Yechouti, Yahya. "L'oeuvre littéraire d'Alice Walker." Paris 4, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040131.
Full textThis dissertaion studies the literary production of alice walker until 1990. It includes thus her four novels, her four books of poetry, her two collections of short stories, and finally her two collections of essays. Known particularly by her third novel, the color purple which brought her worldwide fame, alice walker is caracterized by her feminist committment. She has however changed the term feminist to "womanist" to distingwish her afro-american movement from that of the white feminists. She is also known by her challenge and rebellion against the social taboos and conventions, and against the canons of the different literary genres. The dissertation tries furthermore to analyse the biographical reasons of this rebellion and adoption of the womanist movement, the manifestations of her ideology in her work, the often successful balance between this ideology and her art , and finally the development of her vision through time and through her works from a radical womanist to a humanist
Araszkiewicz, Agata. "La subjectivité de la « femme auteur » sur l’exemple de Aniela Gruszecka, Irena Krzywicka, Wanda Melcer et Pola Gojawiczyńska : l'émergence d'une « écriture féminine » polonaise dans l'entre-deux guerre." Paris 8, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA084151.
Full textThe interwar period (1918-1939) in Poland is of particular importance for the creation and development of the modern literary discourses and ideas. Notions of the women`s emancipation have their own specific place as the social transformation accompanied the political one after the country regained its independence in 1918. However, the history of Polish feminist aesthetics is almost missing and, according to prevailing knowledg, the Polish feminism was imported from the West only in the 1990s. In this context, the importance of the literary contribution of women-writers who are nowadays ignored or misunderstood, such as Maria Kuncewiczowa, Aniela Gruszecka, Irena Krzywicka, Wanda Melcer and Pola Gojawiczyńska, justifies their re-reading and reintegration into a literary canon. The women's writing examined through the prism of the philosophy of sexual difference (H. Cixous, J. Derrida, L. Irigaray) helps to reconstruct the traces of the “feminine textual subjectivity”. Their theoretical foundations were formulated exactly in the 1920s and 1930s (V. Woolf). The figure of a “woman–author” (the term of Ch. Planté), adopted from the French intellectual tradition, is implied here as an incarnation of contradictions linked to the question of relation between “woman” and the representation. The individual quests for style by women writers we are concerned with constitute the testimony of the search for artistic identity linked to philosophical and political ideas. After 1918, the young Polish literature adhered to experiment and innovation. However, the role of women in the movement of literary avant-garde remains to be discovered. Audacity of the formal structures and the contribution of those women writers to the national literary tradition merits to be properly appreciated. This leads to the reinsertion of this Polish literary tradition into the context of a mondial literature
NDOZANGUE, NDETOLOUM CELINE. "Bessie head, romanciere de la condition feminine." Paris 3, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA030046.
Full textMen's lack of concern, of understanding and of regard have caused bessie head, a south african writer and refugee, who has made her home in botswana, to produce an important work on the feminine condition. Thus, her novels present a display of feminine figures, who stand out by their suffering and their strength of character. The preliminary consideration of the women's condition through the different stages of the evolution of africa has made possible the clarification of certain points obscured by the kind of theory which celebrated the important place occupied by women in traditional societies. Despite the main economic role they played, women had no real power. Their precarious position has been worsened by colonization, even if this latter has enabled them to become conscious of their exploitation and oppression and has initiated their protest. What could be the meaning of this situation on literary level? head characters are impressive because of their determination, their sense of independence and their concern for emancipation, even if some of them resign themselves to their sad fate. In fact, head's work deals with women of traditional societies as well as those of modern societies; and moreover it is an account of what really exists. Thus, the novelist, intentionally, refuses to create extraordinary characters : her characters, like any human being, have qualities and failings, in order to meet her view. Head's novels are characterized by her commitment as well : she fights against any kind of sexism and racism and then appears as the historian of oppressed people. At last, head is feminist by her example, her themes, and her writing, a reflexion of her ideal
Grué, Mélanie. "Grotesque "queer" et savoirs abjects dans l'oeuvre de Dorothy Allison." Phd thesis, Université Paris-Est, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00958245.
Full textSoobarah, Agnihotri Jeeveeta. "La construction et la revendication du sujet féminin dans "The God of small things", "Mitro Marjani" et "Pagli"." Bordeaux 3, 2008. https://extranet.u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr/memoires/diffusion.php?nnt=2008BOR30092.
Full textAt the meeting point of three literatures: Mauritian Francophone and Indian literature in English and Hindi, the focus is placed on the construction of female agency in the Indiaoceanic narrative space. Ananda Devi, Arundhati Roy and Krishna Sobti depict female protagonists, defined through their personal crisis, in a social structure dominated by the male logos. Their écriture feminine exposes the terror felt vis-à-vis the female body and female sexuality, seen as the operating cause of the fall of the woman, from model to counter-model. Furthermore, the subject/object dialectics motivated by power, is so fragile that very often the negotiation of this fine line determines the construction of the female protagonist, as well as her claiming of an identity of her own. Cultural studies and gender studies used as theoretical and aesthetic tools help us understand the problematic subalternity of the female character in both postcolonial and patriarchal contexts. Her emergence as subject of discourse takes place via revolt and through the reappropriation of language against “the gaze”, she thus redefines space in a way that destabilizes borders
Rubera, Albert. "La poétique feministe postcoloniale dans la littérature africaine francophone : autour de l'écriture romanesque de Ken Bugul." Paris 13, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA131006.
Full textConfluence of sociological theories, political movements and moral philosophies regarding the situation of women in general, and within their social, political and economic context in particular, feminism has always embraced worldwide ambitions. In this resolute struggle for women liberation, feminism changed the face several times, and was often divided into trends and streams sometimes opposed to one another with regard to the meaning of the struggle to lead. How is the postcolonial African woman going to react to feminism which can be considered as one of the forms of Western imperialism having for a long time acted in the guise of a universalistic discourse of women liberation? This is the question that Ken Bugul has already asked herself. This study intends to situate Ken Bugul's feminist thought and position at the cross-section of feminist and postcolonial theories
Marsaleix, Nadège. "L'inscription du genre dans l'oeuvre de fiction de Virginia Woolf." Paris 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA030120.
Full textThe gender issue is addressed here from three different angles. It was only in the 1980s that gender became an analytical concept encompassing both sexes, which brought radical changes in the field of textual politics. In the first phase of this study, where gender is definde as a social and a cultural construct, the purpose is, rather than to analyse the power of one sex over the other, to consider instead the powers shared by each sex while showing how a cultural norm can subtly be turned into a so-called natural one. The second part deals with the evolution of Woolf's feminine discourse. As she engages in a linguitic quest and seeks to find another language to inscribe women's existence into her texts, she manages to create a felinine cosmogony, thus paying tribute to women'eccentric though central position. .
Egan, Frances. "Portraits of the Artist's Self ˸ translating Alexandre Vialatte's Battling le ténébreux." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019USPCA043.
Full textAlexandre Vialatte’s (1901-1971) self-proclaimed label – ‘notoirement méconnu’ – continues to define him today. The writer-translator’s incongruities have relegated him to the margins of the French literary canon yet paradoxically attract a modest academic following. His first novel Battling le ténébreux ou la mue périlleuse (1928) – a little-studied and currently untranslated coming of age tale – exemplifies the rich placelessness that defines the author. This thesis contextualises Battling in light of Vialatte’s position as translator. It suggests the text is informed by an uneasy encounter between French and German cultures and geographies and, in parallel, it investigates the very notion of an identity ‘in translation’. This thesis adopts a translational approach whereby my own process translating Battling into English frames a literary study of the text. Given the multifaceted nature of translation, such an approach is interdisciplinary: it draws not only from translation studies (both theory and practice), but also from comparative literature, creative writing, and feminist studies, to map a polyphonous and multifaceted space between subjects and cultures. The analysis centres on the modernist hero’s ‘mue périlleuse’, or coming of age, and structures itself around two intersubjective encounters; as Vialatte’s protagonist meets his foreign and feminine Other to find insecurity, translator meets writer to problematise the original text. Through these two encounters, this thesis works to unsettle the binaries of self and other, original and translation, to ultimately present a plural and ethical identity in translation
Alba, Virginie. "Les productions littéraires de Jeannette C. Armstrong, Beth Brant et Lee Maracle : des exemples de l'activisme politique chez les femmes autochtones au Canada : une approche non-autochtone." Toulouse 2, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999TOU20115.
Full textThis thesis’ title reflects the topics which are dealt with in it as well as the perspective with which they are looked into, that is to say in a sympathetic and critical way, with a strong awareness of my own identity. This work finds its context within the frame work of a self-reflexive use of the feminist, postmodern and postcolonial theories in which the latter are applied to themselves. From the study of the literature considered here and following the theoretical questioning movement and the reading positions taken in this study, the dominating modern, feminist, postmodern and postcolonial theories in the literary, sociological, anthropological and political fields will be evaluated. The partial inadequacies of these theories as related to the realities and the goals pursued by native women in Canada will be unveiled. Drawing inspiration from native authors and native literature in general, and in particular from the theoretical contributions made in those fields by the authors and their writings, this thesis will outline the theoretical intertextuality of these texts attempt to shed some light on what the authors borrow and reject from these theories. This thesis also attempts to understand the diversity in the definitions of nativeness and Canadianness as well as the relations between orality and literature, between feminism end nativeness, two-spiritedness and nativeness and between traditions and renewed traditions. This research is organized to stand for an exchange space on the topic of the role and characteristics of women, men, “minorities”, of their speech acts in the states/nations/pluricultural or multicultural societies as well as an exchange space on the topic of the literary, philosophical, social, political orientations of today and tomorrow’s democratic societies. This work also attempts to show the necessity for the diffusion of the contents of these so-called minority authors and actor’s speech acts. At the same time, it also means to demonstrate that though the stakes of the multiple translations’ process implied are important and that the dangers of theoretical manicheisms and essentialisms this diffusion process involves are important, these works nonetheless reveal the imperative aspects of the realization of the communication negotiations bore by the translations
Py, Fatima. "Le surnaturel dans le roman féminin guadeloupéen contemporain." Thesis, Antilles, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017ANTI0139/document.
Full textThis thesis studies the occurrences of supernatural in Guadeloupe’s feminine novel. The writers are all women from Guadeloupe: they were born there (Lacrosil, Conde) or their parents come from Guadeloupe and they grew up there (Schwarz-Bart, Pineau). Every novel evokes a literary period of the 20th century: demain jab-herma (1960-1970), Pluie et vent sur Telumée miracle (1970-1980), moi, tituba, sorciere… (1980-1990) and la Grande drive des esprits (1990-2000).Every novel is based on supernatural: demain, jab-herma's hero is a sorcerer, such as Schwarz-Bart and Conde’s heroes. La Grande drive des esprits describes a family through the 20th century in Guadeloupe and a few characters have supernatural powers. We first made an inventory of contemporary feminine novels: it rises at the 20th century, thanks to our writers and through this supernatural theme. Then, we studied supernatural, religious magical, sacred's role in Guadeloupe: where it comes from, its place in Caribbean, its popular role. Finally, we studied fantastic imaginary's place: how it allows unpowerful slaves and slaves' children to think themselves powerful, the novel shows the social role of magical religious.We wanted to show how supernatural partly defines Guadeloupe’s novel. In conclusion, this study reveals how supernatural makes part of the weltanshauung, the way the people from Guadeloupe can see the world; the characters' whole life is made of supernatural, from birth to death; supernatural shows women's fundamental role, and appears as well in speaking, customs and public life
Lavoie, Sophie. "La femme, auteur et personnage, dans l'oeuvre de Gioconda Belli, (Nicaragua 1948-)." Aix-Marseille 1, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005AIX10036.
Full textMazzone, Fanny. "L'édition féministe en quête de légitimité : capital militant, capital symbolique (1968-2001)." Thesis, Metz, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007METZ014L.
Full textThis research is based on the concept of champ éditorial (publishing field) from Pierre Bourdieu, as a space which is relatively autonomous and able to reinterpret economic, political and cultural powers external to it, with respect to its own logic and through publishing strategies. We venture the hypothesis that feminist publishing comprises a subfield which has the same features as the publishing field. Inasmuch as publishing is part of the feminist debate, this publishing subfield is also included in the activist field. Its development reflects that of the Mouvement de Libération des Femmes : publishing has been a mouthpiece and a legitimization path for feminism, while the MLF has changed the publishing field’s boundaries. Indeed, from publishing perspectives, positions were adopted with regard to decision making and the way for publishing feminism and women. On literature goods market, claims from MLF extended to reflections related to aesthetics at the forefront of the field. The objective was then to incorporate power layers through institutionalization processes. Afterwards, feminist publishing provided both publishing field agents and activist field agents with specific assets. Feminist publishing, in the context of the contemporary market economy, generated strong exchanges as far as activism and literature were concerned, also at the international level (shows, translation, manifestoes, etc.). Finally, feminism mutations resulted in reconversion strategies illustrated by éditions Des Femmes , whose policy endeavoured to remain in the publishing field and on the market of ideas
Despeyroux, Dubrana Marie-Christine. "Erica Jong : Fanny et le roman anglais au XVIIIème siècle." Paris 4, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA040175.
Full textFanny is a major work from the American novelist Erica Jong who wished to write a mock eighteenth-century novel. Very well informed about the period, mastering the technique of authors like Defoe, Fielding or Cleland, she tries to seize the mind of the period. If she relates the life, manners, ideas, and morality of the 18th century, Erica Jong describes an heroine, Fanny, who, if she evokes Tom Jones, Fanny Hill, Moll Flanders or Roxana, is very similar to Isadora, her favorite heroine, her alter ego. She naturally transcends the imitation process concerning the style, the evolution of the heroine, giving her character a rich, complex and modern personality. More advanced than the heroines of the past, intellectual, sensual, feminist, feminine, nonconformist, fanny benefits, apart from her various encounters and numerous and perilous adventures, from the whole power, the psychological experience and the concerns of the woman writer Erica Jong. Rebelling against taboos, prejudices and inequalities, Fanny wishes to pass on, with the true account of her life, to her daughter Belinda, born of incest, the sense of personal ethics based upon a taste for culture and freedom to acquire mastery over her fate and blooming in her life as a woman, a mother, an artist. Aiming to describe the characteristics of feminine nature in a female picaresque, marked with humor, irony, seriousness, eroticism and personal satire, Erica Jong, looking for osmosis between art and life, describes the complexity of the origins and influences of modern woman's fate who is marked by the duality head and body. Investing herself in fanny, she personally authenticates the. .