Claire Kahane (born 1935 in New York City)[1] is an American writer, scholar and feminist literary critic. She is Professor Emerita of English at the University at Buffalo, where she taught from 1974 to 2000.[2] Kahane is the author of Passions of the Voice, a study of narrative and "the strategies of hysteric discourse."[3] Scholar Christine Wiesenthal, writing in the journal Victorian Review, wrote that "the confluence of feminist, narrative, and psychoanalytic theory" in Passions of the Voice was "an innovative and provocative mix."[4] Kahane is also the co-editor, with Charles Bernheimer, of In Dora's Case, a collection of essays from a feminist perspective criticizing Sigmund Freud's efforts to "put words into Dora's mouth."[5] Kahane completed her undergraduate education at the City College of New York and earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley with a dissertation on the fiction of Flannery O'Connor.[1]
Bibliography edit
- (Co-editor, with Charles Bernheimer) In Dora's Case: Freud, Hysteria, Feminism (Columbia University Press, 1985; rpt.1990) ISBN 9780231059107
- Passions of the Voice: Hysteria, Narrative, and the Figure of the Speaking Woman, 1850-1915 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995) ISBN 9780801851612
- (Co-editor, with Shirley Garner and Madelon Sprengnether) "The (M)Other Tongue:Essays in Feminist Psychoanalytic Interpretation" (Cornell University Press, 1985).
References edit
- ^ a b "Claire Kahane Papers: Biographical Note". Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online. Brown University. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
- ^ "Emeritus Faculty". Department of English. University at Buffalo. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
- ^ DiBattista, Maria (1998). "Passions of the Voice: Hysteria, Narrative and the Figure of the Speaking Woman, 1850-1915". Modern Philology. 95 (4): 559–562. doi:10.1086/mp.95.4.438923. JSTOR 438923.
- ^ Wiesenthal, Christine (1996). "Passions of the Voice: Hysteria, Narrative, and the Figure of the Speaking Woman by Claire Kahane". Victorian Review. 22 (2): 212–216. doi:10.1353/vcr.1996.0029. JSTOR 27794847. S2CID 162784300.
- ^ Robinson, Lilian S. (1988). "In Dora's Case: Freud, Hysteria, Feminism". Signs. 13 (3): 609–611. doi:10.1086/494450. JSTOR 3174190.
External links edit
- Claire Kahane Papers, Pembroke Center Archives, Brown University
- ClaireKahane.net, Official website's list of published works