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Article: Reecriture des mythes: l'utopie au feminin.(Review)
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- Utopian Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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Joelle Cauville and Metka Zupancic, eds. Reecriture des mythes: l'utopie au feminin. Etudes de langue at litterature francaises no. 123. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1997. x + 266 pp. $66.00 cloth. $18.00 paper.
THE 20 ESSAYS collected here have been gathered to address what the editors perceive as a lacuna--the rarity of studies linking the use of mythology and "utopia in the feminine." The latter concept overlaps with the Anglo-American "feminist utopia" but does not coincide with it completely. Here we find the French word "utopie" taken beyond the boundaries established by More to include "utopian impulse," "utopian space," "uchronie" (untranslatable but ...