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Feminism and the feminine in Yolande Villemaire's La vie en prose
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Tilley, Jane Lucinda |
| Copyright Year | 1989 |
| Abstract | Exposing the f a l l a c i e s of the exist ing ideo log ica l system founded upon a l i n g u i s t i c system of s ign i f i eds , recent women's wri t ing has aimed to deconstruct the numerous h ierarchies and stereotypes used against women, thus c lear ing a space for the h i therto repressed feminine and the marginal. The inc lus ion of a vast range of in ter tex tua l borrowing i n La Vie en prose, by Yolande V i l l e m a i r e , challenges the e l i t i s t boundaries erected by the closed academic l i t e r a r y world, incorporating elements from a l l genres and leve ls . Thanks to the d i v e r s i t y and number of these borrowings. La Vie en prose refuses the sett ing up of any new hierarchy, constantly questioning any c l a s s i f i c a t i o n to the extent that the whole concept of v a l o r i s a t i o n becomes r id icu lous and i rre l evant . This v a r i e t y i s imitated on an "intratextual" l eve l as the text appears to be made up of a number of diverse texts produced by a dozen or so women wr i ter -narrators . Again, the process of classification i s thwarted as the idea i s shown to be not only p a t r i a r c h a l , but a lso a resu l t of a fundamental need or insecur i ty which apparently motivates the p a t r i a r c h a l obsession with nominisation and l a b e l l i n g . S i m i l a r l y , the deceptive nature of the discourse which expresses th i s ideology, t r a d i t i o n a l l y seen as concrete and i n f a l l i b l e , i s exposed and deconstructed. The "one word for one meaning" doctrine i s replaced by a myriad p o s s i b i l i t i e s of s i g n i f i c a t i o n and |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.14288/1.0097939 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://open.library.ubc.ca/media/download/pdf/831/1.0097939/1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.14288/1.0097939 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
