Namascar Shaktini (ed.), On Monique Wittig: Theoretical, Political & Litterary Essays

Namascar Shaktini (ed.), On Monique Wittig: Theoretical, Political, and Litterary Essays, Urbana and Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 2005.

Sommaire :

Preface (p. ix)

Introduction (p. 1)

Chronology (p. 7)

Part. 1 : Monique Wittig’s Manifesto (p. 13)

• Namascar Shaktini – Introduction to « For a Women’s Liberation Movement » (p. 15)
• Monique Wittig, Gille Wittig, Marcia Rothenberg, Margaret Stephenson (Namascar Shaktini) – For a Women’s Liberation Movement (p. 21)

Essays by Monique Wittig (p. 35)

• Monique Wittig – Some Remarks on Les Guérillères (p. 37)
• Monique Wittig – Some Remarks on The Lesbian body (p. 44)

Critical approaches (p. 49)

• Teresa de Lauretis – When Lesbians Were Not Women (p. 51)
• Diane Griffin Crowder – Universalizing Materialist Lesbianism (p. 63)
• Linda M. G. Zerilli – A New Grammar of Difference: Monique Wittig’s Poetic Revolution (p. 87)
• Erika Ostrovsky – Transformation of Gender and Genre Paradigms in the Fiction of Monique Wittig (p. 115)

Theoretical applications (p. 131)

• Jeannelle Laillou Savona – Quixote’s Journey: How to Change the World and Degenderize the Stage (p. 133)
• Namascar Shaktini – The Critical Mind and The Lesbian Body (p. 150)

A New Generation of Readers (p. 161)

• Dominique Bourque – Dialogic Subversion in Monique Wittig’s Fiction (p. 163)
• Catherine Rognon-Ecarnot – Politics and Poetics of Travesty in Monique Wittig’s Fiction (p. 180)
• Marie-Hélène Bourcier – Wittig la Politique (p. 187)