Monique Wittig--The Straight Mind and Other Essays (1992).
About The Straight Mind. These political, philosophical, and literary essays mark the first collection of theoretical writing from the acclaimed novelist and French feminist writer Monique Wittig.
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The Straight Mind and Other Essays Monique Wittig was born in the Haut Rhin department in Alsace. She moved to Paris in the 1950s, where she studied at the Sorbonne.
In 1992, Wittig published the noteworthy volume The Straight Mind and Other Essays, which assembles a diverse selection of her literary and political analyses, dating from 1976 to 1990. The titular essay, which enables Wittig to outline her invaluable analysis of heteropatriarchy and the discourses which promote and maintain it, contains Wittig’s most controversial affirmation: that, as the.
Wittig’s essay collection was published in English in 1992 (The Straight Mind and Other Essays (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992)), bringing together texts previously published in various journals, or delivered at conferences. The essays cast an important light on Wittig’s work as a writer, but also as an activist and radical, material feminist.
Monique Wittig, French avant-garde novelist and radical feminist whose works include unconventional narratives about utopian nonhierarchical worlds, often devoid of men. Wittig attended the Sorbonne and immigrated to the United States in 1976. Her first novel, L’Opoponax (1964; The Opoponax), is an.
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