This study, which reads Leduc’s narratives from a feminist and psychoanalytic perspective, has a double focus:- * Part One scrutinizes the intricacies of her treatment of feminine bonding, seeking to bring new insights – inspired inter alia by theorists such as Melanie Klein, Freud, and Luce Irigaray – to bear on her representations of mother/daughter and lesbian relations. * Part Two examines Leduc’s use of language in Thérèse et Isabelle, probing the extent to which this novella contains examples of feminist and/or ‘feminine’ discourse. By exploring Leduc’ s lyrical evocation of feminine homosexuality from both a gender-related and a more traditional, formalist standpoint, the writer exposes the limitations of a purely feminist approach to her work.
About the author
Alex Hughes
