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Reecriture des mythes: l'utopie au feminin.(Review)
Joelle Cauville and Metka Zupancic, eds. Reecriture des mythes: l'utopie au feminin. Etudes de langue at litterature francaises no. 123. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1997. x + 266 pp. $66.00 cloth. $18.00 paper.
THE 20 ESSAYS collected here have been gathered to address what the editors perceive as a lacuna--the rarity of studies linking the use of mythology and "utopia in the feminine." The latter concept overlaps with the Anglo-American "feminist utopia" but does not coincide with it completely. Here we find the French word "utopie" taken beyond the boundaries established by More to include "utopian impulse," "utopian space," "uchronie" (untranslatable but roughly, "timelessness"(1)), "heterotopia," and (especially) the kind of non-representational linguistic utopia that comes to life solely in the act of writing or reading. What puts these "in the feminine" is the revalorization of women and the acknowledgement of the female body, both for itself and in its relation to other bodies. The theoretical sources cited in these essays include a number of French writers on utopia who have not yet been translated. Each essay spends a paragraph or two defending the inclusion of its subject…
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