The Spanish Communist exile and Francophone Holocaust writer Jorge SemprUn (1923-) is a major contributor to contemporary debates on the politics and ethics of remembering the Franco era, Communism and the Holocaust in French, Spanish and broader European contexts. His sophisticated literary testimonies have become landmark texts not least for their commitment to represent the lived experience of history. In this first detailed study in English of Jorge SemprUn's writing, Ursula Tidd shows how SemprUn explores the parameters of self-writing as an address to the other in a richly intertextual...
The Spanish Communist exile and Francophone Holocaust writer Jorge SemprUn (1923-) is a major contributor to contemporary debates on the politics and ...
Simone de Beauvoir's work has not often been associated with film studies, which appears paradoxical when it is recognized that she was the first feminist thinker to inaugurate the concept of the gendered 'othering' gaze. This book is an attempt to redress this balance and reopen the dialogue between Beauvoir's writings and film studies. The authors analyse a range of films, from directors including Claire Denis, Michael Haneke, Lucille Hadzihalilovic, Sam Mendes, and Sally Potter, by drawing from Beauvoir's key works such as The Second Sex (1949), The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947) and Old...
Simone de Beauvoir's work has not often been associated with film studies, which appears paradoxical when it is recognized that she was the first f...
Simone de Beauvoir's work has transformed the way we think about gender and identity. Without her 1949 text The Second Sex, gender theory as we know it today would be unthinkable. A leading figure in French existentialism, Beauvoir's concepts of becoming woman and of woman as other are among the most influential ideas in feminist enquiry and debate. This book guides the reader through the main areas of Simone de Beauvoir's thought, including: existentialism and ethics; gender studies and feminism; literature and autobiography; and sexuality, the body and ageing. Drawing upon Beauvoir's...
Simone de Beauvoir's work has transformed the way we think about gender and identity. Without her 1949 text The Second Sex, gender theory as we know i...
Following its publication in 1949, The Second Sex quickly became one of the fundamental works of feminist thought. In it, Simone de Beauvoir (1908 86) offered up a statement that has informed nearly allfeminist and gender scholarship that has followed, One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. And it is the woman Beauvoir became who continues to fascinate, fostering a legend of coffee-drinking Parisian intellectuals debating existentialism in smoky cafes along the Left Bank.
Beauvoir lived through some of the most dramatic and significant events of the twentieth century,...
Following its publication in 1949, The Second Sex quickly became one of the fundamental works of feminist thought. In it, Simone de Beauvoir...
"The volume convincingly demonstrates the enduring value of Beauvoir's work, and makes a very distinctive contribution to contemporary French film studies." - Modern and Contemporary France
" The editors] accomplish this genre's most important task: framing the collection with an urgency that leads a reader to wonder how such a book didn't already exist...By the time I'd reached the end of the book, I wanted more which] suggests the strength of this book, its provocative existential claims a compelling reason for its own existence." - H-France Review
"This collection of essays on...
"The volume convincingly demonstrates the enduring value of Beauvoir's work, and makes a very distinctive contribution to contemporary French film ...
