Book contents
- Surrealism
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Surrealism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Surrealism’s Critical Legacy
- Part I Origins: Ideas/Concepts/Interventions
- Part II Developments: Practices/Cultures/Material Forms
- Part III Applications: Heterodoxies and New Worlds
- Chapter 14 Surrealism and Schizoanalysis
- Chapter 15 The Surrealist Bestiary and Animal Philosophy
- Chapter 16 Picasso’s Habits: André Breton on Art, Nature and Reflexivity
- Chapter 17 Surrealism and Mass-Observation
- Chapter 18 Pacific Surrealism
- Chapter 19 Decolonial Surrealism
- Chapter 20 Surrealism and écriture féminine
- Chapter 21 Subcultural Receptions of Surrealism in the 1960s International Underground Press
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 20 - Surrealism and écriture féminine
from Part III - Applications: Heterodoxies and New Worlds
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 July 2021
- Surrealism
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Surrealism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Surrealism’s Critical Legacy
- Part I Origins: Ideas/Concepts/Interventions
- Part II Developments: Practices/Cultures/Material Forms
- Part III Applications: Heterodoxies and New Worlds
- Chapter 14 Surrealism and Schizoanalysis
- Chapter 15 The Surrealist Bestiary and Animal Philosophy
- Chapter 16 Picasso’s Habits: André Breton on Art, Nature and Reflexivity
- Chapter 17 Surrealism and Mass-Observation
- Chapter 18 Pacific Surrealism
- Chapter 19 Decolonial Surrealism
- Chapter 20 Surrealism and écriture féminine
- Chapter 21 Subcultural Receptions of Surrealism in the 1960s International Underground Press
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores the genealogies between Surrealism’s quest to express or represent the unconscious unrestrained by rational thought, and the pursuit in 1970s avant-garde feminism of a new language – an “écriture féminine” – that would be uncontaminated by phallocentric logic. Through a reading of selected works by two figures situated at the intersection of these two aesthetic and theoretical movements – feminist theorist Xavière Gauthier and artist and writer Dorothea Tanning – the chapter demonstrates that these links are not unidirectional but a dynamic dialogue. This dialogue signals not only an allegiance to Surrealism at the heart of poststructuralist/psychoanalytic feminism but also a germinal feminist poetics in historical Surrealism – that would come to full fruition in 1970s Surrealist activity.
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- Surrealism , pp. 363 - 379Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021