Voix et Mémoires: Éléments autobiographiques dans l'Oeuvre d'Hélène Cixous
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2012
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Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü
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The purpose of this dissertation entitled Voix et Mémoires: Éléments autobiographiques dans l?Oeuvre d?Hélène Cixous (Voices and Memories: Autobiographical Elements in Hélène Cixous?s Works) is to analyze the autobiographical elements in her three ?fictions? entitled Or, les lettres de mon père (1997), Osnabrück (1999), Les rêveries de la femme sauvage, scènes primitives (2000).These fictions relying on the principles of écriture féminine, which were theorized by Hélène Cixous herself in different essays, offer texts that unite the fictional with autobiography and the real with the imaginary. Therefore, it is possible to determine the characteristics of a literature that aims at forming a new feminine language and perception, asserting its freedom against classical norms, and providing the basis for new thought categories based on subjectivity, multiplicity, diversity, and pleasure.These fictions, which rework and transform family members and childhood memories, offer texts that are self-feeding and self-reflexive. Each fiction provides a basis for the other and while the autobiographical elements are transformed, each text puts forward a renewed writing and perspective each time although its source remains the same.
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Voix et Mémoires, Éléments autobiographiques