The Tongue Snatchers (European Women Writers) - Softcover

Herrmann, Claudine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803272529 ISBN 13: 9780803272521

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1991

Synopsis

Claudine Herrmann became famous in France with he publication of Les Voleuses de langue in 1976. Her much-quoted book is now recognized as a modern classic of feminist literary criticism. Nancy Kline's welcome English translation captures the clarity and passion of observations that go beyond books to boudoirs and boardrooms. Herrmann charges that language is the fundamental means by which women are oppressed. Their education forces them to parrot masculine discourse, often gets them dismissed as chatterboxes, and silences their real lives. Women who desire to express themselves creatively are obliged to "steal" language or to invent one of their own. Based on readings of major texts in literature, philosophy, and the social sciences, The Tongue Snatchers illuminates how men and women differ in their experiences of words, work, space, time, love, and sexuality. Nancy Kline is Director of the Writing Project, Barnard College. She is the author of a novel, The Faithful (1969), and of Lightning: The Poetry of René Char (1981).

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Nancy Kline is Director of the Writing Project, Barnard College. She is the author of a novel, The Faithful (1969), and of Lightning: The Poetry of René Char (1981).

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803272529
• ISBN 13: 9780803272521
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 178