{"product_id":"the-literary-workshop-isbn-9781804294451","title":"The Literary Workshop","description":"\u003cb\u003eRadical lesbian feminist theorist and author Monique Wittig theorizes writing as labor and demonstrates where literature’s political power comes from\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMonique Wittig was a paradigm-shifting force in the second-wave feminist movement of both the United States and France, and recognized as one of the most brilliant authors of her generation. In this book, she takes the reader inside her literary workshop, showing writing to be a material practice and real labor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWittig diagnosed the \"straight mind\" of Western culture as both heterosexual and misogynist. Her challenge to sexual and gender oppression, along with her philosophical critique of mind-body dualisms, established her as a core thinker in the canon of feminist theory and made possible the field of queer feminism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWittig is part of a constellation of writers who revolutionized French literature, such as Nathalie Sarraute, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon, Marguerite Duras, and Georges Perec, who all departed from the conventional realism of the nineteenth century in order to invent distinctly twentieth-century modes of writing the world.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Literary Workshop\u003c\/i\u003e, Wittig, often bifurcated into either a theorist or an author, provides a complete account of how she thinks the literary and the political together than that of \u003ci\u003eThe Straight Mind\u003c\/i\u003e. Wittig reveals the secret of her craft, showing how the work a writer does with language is at the heart of the political.FOREWORD by Sande Zeig\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOTE ON THE TRANSLATION by Ann Jefferson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE LITERARY WORKSHOP\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003eProposition 1\u003cbr\u003eOn The Heterogeneity and the Instability of the Components Present\u003cbr\u003eProposition 2\u003cbr\u003eOn the Materiality of Language\u003cbr\u003eProposition 3\u003cbr\u003eOn the Effect of Abstract Philosophical Categories on Social Reality\u003cbr\u003eProposition 4\u003cbr\u003eOn the Various Effects of Physical Language\u003cbr\u003eTHE LITERARY WORKSHOP\u003cbr\u003eTHE SOCIAL CONTRACT\u003cbr\u003ePRE-EXISTING FORMS: LITERATURE\u003cbr\u003eWORK ON LANGUAGE\u003cbr\u003e1.From Conventional Words to Raw Words\u003cbr\u003e2.Material Words\u003cbr\u003e3.Signifieds\u003cbr\u003ePHILOSOPHICAL CATEGORIES: THE EXAMPLE OF GENDER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONCLUSION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE MAKING OF WITTIG’S WORKSHOP by Christine Planté\u003cb\u003eMonique Wittig \u003c\/b\u003ewas a feminist, activist and one of the most brilliant authors of her generation. A provocative thinker, she famously declared that lesbians are not women, and introduced women into a Marxist framework by treating women as a class. Wittig is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Straight Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLes Guérillères\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Lesbian Body\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233701376229,"sku":"NP9781804294451","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781804294451.jpg?v=1767740253","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-literary-workshop-isbn-9781804294451","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}