Output details
29 - English Language and Literature
University of Sunderland
Chapter title
George Sand et Colette: lecture croisée du ‘hors temps’ et ‘hors lieu’ comme dénonciation du patriarcat
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Peter Lang
Book title
George Sand : Intertextualité et Polyphonie I
ISBN of book
978-3-03911-987-5
Year of publication
2010
Number of additional authors
-
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
3 - Language and Culture
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
This study highlights the techniques used by George Sand and Colette to defy traditional patriarchal norms. The intertexuality between their novels is analysed to show how they took feminist stances through the non-conformist characteristics and interplay of their characters. Passages of Colette’s The Pure and the Impure and of Sand’s Indiana are used to understand how both writers expressed a desire to free individuals from the grips of patriarchy. This central theme of emancipation is not mere utopia but the reflection of a common desire to go beyond social constraints and imagine individuals as free from gender codes and roles.
