The Papin Sisters by Rachel Edwards

The Papin Sisters by Rachel Edwards

The 1933 killing by the Papin sisters of their mistress and her daughter was an act of unexampled violence by women against women, whose repercussions have been felt in French culture ever since. It received wide journalistic coverage at the time, and subsequently prominent literary figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Genet have dealt with the case, which has also formed the basis of a stage play (by Wendy Kesselmann) and films by Nico Papatakis, Nancy Meckler and Claude Chabrol. The case casts fascinating light on French provincial life between the wars, the role of women (especially unmarried ones) in French society, and French views of the criminal outsider. Its impact on psychoanalytic discourse, through the work first of Jacques Lacan, then of Francis Dupré and Marie-Magdeleine Lessana, has also been considerable, notably in its contribution to the development of the key notion of the mirror-phase. The almost obsessive recurrence of the case makes of it a fascinating prism through which to examine multiple aspects of recent French culture.

Rachel Edwards is Lecturer in French, University of Newcastle upon Tyne Keith Reader is Professor of French, University of Glasgow

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ISBN 13	9780198160113
ISBN 10	0198160119
Titel	The Papin Sisters
Autor	Rachel Edwards
Serie	Oxford Studies In Modern European Culture
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2001-08-02
Seitenanzahl	144
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