"Tout foutre en l'air" : la colère comme style, analyse comparée d'Andrea Dworkin et Virginie Despentes

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Supervisors

Sábado Novau, Marta

Faculty

Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres

Degree label

Master [120] en langues et lettres françaises et romanes, orientation générale, à finalité spécialisée: sciences et métiers du livre

Abstract

enTwo fundamental investments in the literary evolution of feminism emerged in the 1970s: the use and the claim of literature, as well as of anger, by and for women. In this work, we propose to study the emergence of a particular literary style reflecting the mutual impact of this double appropriation that appears in the second feminism wave and that still influences contemporary feminist productions. After questioning the emergence of a feminist literary anger as objects of struggle, we focus on the particularities - common and divergent - of the authors studied, the American Andrea Dworkin and the French Virginie Despentes, and of their works studied, the anthology Souvenez-vous, résistez, ne cédez pas (2017; speeches from 1979, 1983 and 1993) and King Kong Théorie (2006). Subsequently, we try to verify how the anger of women writers impacts on their written production, based on the recurring motifs of orality and vulgarity. Identifying these stylistic features also allows us to question the purpose - aesthetic and political - of such an endeavour, from a personal and collective perspective.