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L'Asile Des Femmes: Subjectivity and Femininity in Breton's Nadja and Wittig's Le Corps Lesbien

L'Asile Des Femmes: Subjectivity and Femininity in Breton's Nadja and Wittig's Le Corps Lesbien - 35 - L' ASILE DES FEMMES: SUBJECTIVITY AND FEMININITY IN BRETON'S NADJA AND WITTIG'S LE CORPS LESBIEN. Nadja and Le Corps lesbien,2 though profoundly differing texts, are drawn most strongly towards each other by their common pursuit of the nature of textual identity and by the radical way in which they attempt to identify the subject and the object in the context of femininity. Challenging the masculine heterosexual tradition of writing, with its masculine/feminine dichotomy, Le Corps lesbien concerns itself with the feminine homosexual identity, whilst Nadja is concerned with Surrealist masculine subjectivity in its relation to the feminine other. 3 Against the background-or rather, the foreground, since it is a more recent text-of Le Corps lesbien, I wish to reconsider the figure of Nadja and the role she plays in the formulation of the masculine Surrealist subject. I do not wish to 're-instate' the real person of Nadja, as others have already done, or to speculate upon her attitude I prefer, rather, to attempt an exploration of the 'terrain' of Nadja as towards Breton. she is charted by Breton, to undermine, perhaps, his work as a far-from impartial cartographer of the feminine psyche, but to do it http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nottingham French Studies Edinburgh University Press

L'Asile Des Femmes: Subjectivity and Femininity in Breton's Nadja and Wittig's Le Corps Lesbien

Linstrum, Cathy
Nottingham French Studies , Volume 27 (1): 35 – Jan 1, 1988
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Edinburgh University Press
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© 1988 Nottingham French Studies
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0029-4586
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10.3366/nfs.1988.004
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- 35 - L' ASILE DES FEMMES: SUBJECTIVITY AND FEMININITY IN BRETON'S NADJA AND WITTIG'S LE CORPS LESBIEN. Nadja and Le Corps lesbien,2 though profoundly differing texts, are drawn most strongly towards each other by their common pursuit of the nature of textual identity and by the radical way in which they attempt to identify the subject and the object in the context of femininity. Challenging the masculine heterosexual tradition of writing, with its masculine/feminine dichotomy, Le Corps lesbien concerns itself with the feminine homosexual identity, whilst Nadja is concerned with Surrealist masculine subjectivity in its relation to the feminine other. 3 Against the background-or rather, the foreground, since it is a more recent text-of Le Corps lesbien, I wish to reconsider the figure of Nadja and the role she plays in the formulation of the masculine Surrealist subject. I do not wish to 're-instate' the real person of Nadja, as others have already done, or to speculate upon her attitude I prefer, rather, to attempt an exploration of the 'terrain' of Nadja as towards Breton. she is charted by Breton, to undermine, perhaps, his work as a far-from impartial cartographer of the feminine psyche, but to do it

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Published: Jan 1, 1988

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