Literary Forgery and Écriture Féminine in Lee Israel's Can You Ever Forgive Me?
The article analyzes Lee Israel's autobiographical memoir "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" and its film adaptation of the same title to argue that the American author's acts of literary forgery may be attempts at imagining a new form of female canon and authorship. It explains how her preference to produc...
| Publicado en: | Women's Studies Vol. 52; no. 4; pp. 406 - 418 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun2023
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| Sumario: | The article analyzes Lee Israel's autobiographical memoir "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" and its film adaptation of the same title to argue that the American author's acts of literary forgery may be attempts at imagining a new form of female canon and authorship. It explains how her preference to produce her work in the form of literary forgery constitutes a brave new form ofécriture féminine outside the boundaries of the anxiety of influence and the symbological authority of authorship. |
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