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Jouissance des vierges: La topique de la virginite dans deux romans de Marcelle Tinayre
- Nineteenth-Century French Studies
- University of Nebraska Press
- Volume 33, Number 1&2, Fall-Winter 2004-2005
- pp. 163-175
- 10.1353/ncf.2004.0056
- Article
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In both Avant l'amour (1897) and Hellé (1899), Marcelle Tinayre (1872-1948) investigates the discursive, narrative, and ideological extrapolations offered by female virginity. In both cases, virginity allows a discourse of opposition to normative patriarchal preconceptions, and a discourse of repossession of female sensuality, freedom and independence to emerge. Thus apprehended, the preserved hymen symbolizes the temporal, spatial, physical, and ideological threshold where the heroines stand. (in French FG-K)