In Memory of Elaine Marks: Life Writing, Writing Death
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A widely recognized and respected authority on French literature, women's writing, feminist theory, and Jewish studies, Elaine Marks wrote groundbreaking books on Collette, Simone de Beauvoir, and Jewish themes in French literature. In Memory of Elaine Marks continues her legacy of rigorous intellectual exploration, enlivening scholarship in diverse areas of thought. The eleven essays in the collection bring together a number of intellectual, political, and ethical domains that were central to Marks's work: pedagogy, feminism, lesbianism, women's auto/biography, Jewish identity, community, memory, mourning, isolation, and death. In their interpretations of works by Marks, Simone de Beauvoir, Hélène Cixous, Philip Roth, Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Saint-Simon, La Bruyère, Marcel Proust, and others, the authors illustrate and engage Marks's existential vision, fearlessly probing the human experience to make sense of how we live, die, and understand both.
Acknowledgments viiIntroduction: On Mortality and Natality Richard E. Goodkin Elaine Marks 3Life Writing Death"Juifemmes" Evelyn T. Beck Richard E. Goodkin 15"Memoirs of an Indocile Daughter": Encounters with Elaine Marks Martine Debaisieux Richard E. Goodkin 31The Story of a Woman's Life in and through Time Isabelle de Courtivron 57Death of the Other, Death of the MotherThe Disease of Monolingualism Nelly Purman 75As She Lay Dying: Writing and the Mother/Daughter Dynamic in Beauvoir and Ernaux Annie Jouan-westlund 90Childless Children: Bodies and Betrayal Nancy K. Miller 110Jacques's Complaint: Derrida, Mortality, and the Maternal Lawrence D. Kritzman 129Geographies of Life and DeathRonsard on Speed: "Ciel, air, & vens..." Tom Conley 147The Art of Finding: Reading as (a Very Easy) Death Susan S. Lanser 163Signing Off: The Individual Lost and RegainedThe Feminine Signature: Saint-Simon, Elaine Marks, and the Esprit Mortemart David Harrison 183Moribondages: Reading Proust and La Bruyere with(out) Elaine Richard E. Goodkin 204Teaching Mourning and Desire in French Literature Elaine Marks 231Bibliography Elaine Marks 241Works Cited 245Contributors 255
