{"product_id":"colette-and-the-incest-taboo-9781839990489","title":"Colette and the Incest Taboo","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align:\" justify\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight:\"\u003eThis book makes an argument critical to literary theory and sexuality in 2022. It argues that Colette's fiction portrays a woman struggling to live in the throes of the incest taboo, understood in its psychological implications for power relations both private and public, then and now. Informed by Julia Kristeva's work, it approaches Colette's writing and its translation along with two films via close, psychoanalytic readings. It demonstrates that this version of Kristeva's psychoanalytic theory, in an accessible form and with emphasis on the psychology of women and social transformation, helps to read Colette for the twenty-first century as well as to show how Kristeva's theory works.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align:\" justify\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight:\"\u003eThis volume examines the most admired of Colette's novels, especially from the second half of her life, including the much misunderstood \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight:\"\u003eLa Maison de Claudine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight:\"\u003e(1922), where the incest taboo surfaces in the relationship of the narrator with the mother. As the book shows, the taboo had already appeared two years earlier in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight:\"\u003eChéri\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight:\"\u003e (1920), in the rapport between the maternal Léa, a woman of a certain age, and the young man, Chéri; finally, in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight:\"\u003eGigi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight:\"\u003e, the incest taboo characterises the relations between the young teenager of the eponymous title and her much older, uncle figure Gaston. This book also examines two excellent movies, Vincent Minnelli's adaptation of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight:\"\u003eGigi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight:\"\u003e in 1958 and Wash Westmoreland's recent biographical film in 2018, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight:\"\u003eColette\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight:\"\u003e, in the context of the incest taboo.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align:\" justify\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight:\"\u003eColette's writing confronts a problem at the heart of women's psychology today, shedding light on the parent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight:\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight:\"\u003echild relationship and the ways in which it informs our thinking on female mentality, sexuality and power relations. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight:\"\u003eChéri\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight:\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight:\"\u003eLa Maison de Claudine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight:\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight:\"\u003eGigi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight:\"\u003e, Minnelli's adaptation and Westmoreland's biopic reveal the problem as a significant element in a changing female psychology and a society in flux.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anthem Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042907390295,"sku":"9781839990489","price":72.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781839990489.jpg?v=1750956170","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/colette-and-the-incest-taboo-9781839990489","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}