This is the first full-length study to explore Simone de Beauvoir's autobiographical and biographical writings in the context of her ideas on selfhood as formulated in The Second Sex and other philosophical essays of the 1940s. Ursula Tidd presents a detailed analysis of Beauvoir's engagement with issues of gender, sexuality and race, as part of her auto/biographical strategy in seeking to write herself into the male-constructed autobiographical canon.
Tidd first analyses Beauvoir's notions of selfhood in her philosophical essays, and then discusses her four autobiographical and two biographical volumes, along with some of her unpublished diaries, in an attempt to explore notions of selectivity, and the politics of truth-production and reception. The study concludes that Beauvoir's vast auto/biographical project, situated in specific personal and historical contexts.
Tidd offers new readings of Beauvoir's unpublished diaries and recently published letters along with more well-known philosophical and autobiographical texts.
Tidd offers new readings of Beauvoir's unpublished diaries and recently published letters along with more well-known philosophical and autobiographical texts.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
part i: becoming the self
1 Pyrrhus et Cinéas and Pour une morale de l'ambiguïté
2 Le Deuxième Sexe
Part II: Writing the life
3 Narratives of self-representation
4 Negotiating autobiography
5 Writing the self - Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée
6 Bearing Witness with the Other, bearing witness for the Other
7 Writing the Other
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Filmography
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