Infiltrating Culture : Power and Identity in Contemporary Women's Writing

by Mireille Rosello

• ISBN13: 9780719049170
• ISBN10: 0719049172
• Format: Trade Book
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: From community to departenance: The rhetorics and politics of a metaphor	p. 1
Introduction: From community to departenance: Infiltration, identities and communities	p. 15
Introduction: From community to departenance: A word on the corpus	p. 18
Claire Bretecher's Les Frustres: Why do little boys play with washing machines and why do little girls lie about it?	p. 23
Francoise Ega's Lettres a une noire: The cleaning lady as ethnographer: working, giving and writing	p. 53
Michele Maillet's L'Etoile noire: Infiltrating concentration camp logic	p. 81
Colette's Prisons et paradis and Sand's recipes: Reading a recipe book in bed or the de-appropriation of feminine work	p. 107
Renee Vivien's La Dame a la louve and Une Femme m'apparut: 'Why should I swallow a toad?: self-defeating gender reversals	p. 146
Conclusion: James Bond as civil servant: the limits of infiltration	p. 181
Bibliography	p. 193
Index	p. 201
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