The Name of the Mother: Writing Illegitimacy

ISBN-13: 9781032265490 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 280 str.

Marie MacLean

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First published in 1994, Marie Maclean studies the writings of social rebels and explores the relationship between their personal narratives and illegitimacy. Skilfully interweaving feminist theory, French literary criticism, social and cultural history, deconstruction and psychoanalytic theory.

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Preface, 1. Performances of Exclusion, 2. Myth and Psychoanalysis: Legitimate and Illegitimate, 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, 9. ‘Better to Reign in Hell…’, 10. Delegitimation by Proxy, 11. Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography, Index