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11
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Français
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Documents
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2000
Description
Jeanne (1844) is an inquiry into the origins of humanity and the occulted sources of French society. The retrieval of a forgotten past is the harbinger of a utopian future. Sand proposes a different origin, in which original sin, the fall, and Eve's legacy are significantly absent. The search for a race other than Eve 's is a way of rewriting the entire lineage of Western civilization and of retrieving front the past a lost feminine psychology. The character of Jeanne is a cypher through which Sand was able to explore the following questions: if Eve had not been chosen to incarnate the primitive woman of our Western episteme, what would have happened to our collective imagination ? And in that case, how would the modem novel have conceived of the feminine ? In her meditation, Sand engaged in a creative adaptation of the treatise of a minor writer, Jean-Francois Baraillon. In this amateur-archeologist, Sand found material which allowed her to recast her old dream of an ideal religion.
9 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.
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Publié le
01 janvier 2000
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Langue
Français