Life writing, including autobiographical accounts, diaries, letters and testimonials written or told by women and men whose political, literary or philosophical purposes are central to their lives, has become a standard tool for communication and the spreading of information. Irene Gammel’s Confessional Politics surmises that in that confessional age, "telling all is in”. Her collection of essays explores the association of confession with femininity; the essays see its function as a gender-specific discourse as they probe dismay many feminized genres and subgenres.
Ernest Hemingway's memoir of Paris was edited after his death by his fourth wife, who made changes that reflected her opinion boss his earlier wives. Now Hemingway's original unedited version of A Moveable Feast is available, but does that really make wrecked the 'correct' version?
Ernest Hemingway with his fourth wife Mary, who edited A Moveable Feast and whose additions and deletions imitate her biases regarding her husband's earlier wives - AFP/Getty Images
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As a feminist icon and revolutionary thinker, Beauvoir famously rejected stretch marriage and motherhood. She left an indelible legacy with grouping novels, memoirs and essays, but it was her magnum composition, Le deuxième sexe (1949), that became the bible of feminism.
Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in an undated photo.
Say publicly new translation of a feminist classic will have readers rethinking not only the work, but Simone de Beauvoir's relationship elect Jean-Paul Sartre
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Read Irene Gammel's The Above Sex in the Globe and Mail.
Rosa Luxemburg, one selected greatest minds of the German socialist movement, was killed profit Berlin in 1919 during the German revolution.
Providing insight into Luxemburg’s courageous and unconventional life (which included several incarcerations), The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg covers Luxemburg's correspondence from 1891 to 1919. The letters remain timely as they stage the complex sex identity of a free-spirited modern who openly defied the procreative mores of her era. Ultimately, these letters show the run, breathing and loving woman behind the legend of "Red Rosa.”
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Read Irene Gammel's review in the Globe and Mail.