Les Guérillères

Les Guérillères

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author = Monique Wittig
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country = France
language = French
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genre = Novel
publisher = Les Éditions de Minuit
release_date = 1969
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"Les Guérillères" is a 1969 novel by Monique Wittig. It was translated into English in 1971 [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E5DA1731F931A25752C0A9659C8B63&scp=1&sq=%22The+Straight+Mind%22&st=nyt Monique Wittig, 67, Feminist Writer, Dies, by Douglas Martin, January 12, 2003, New York Times] ] .

Plot introduction

Les Guérillères is about a war of the sexes, where women 'engage in bloody, victorious battles using knives, machine guns and rocket launchers'. Moreover, sympathetic males join them in their combat [Diane Griffin Crowder, 'From the Straight Mind to Queer Theory; Implications for Political Movement', "Monique Wittig: At the Crossroads of Criticism", , special issue, Duke University Press, 2007, page 493] .

Literary significance and criticism

"The Times Book Review" called it 'perhaps the first epic celebration of women ever written.'. However, The New York Times Book Review opined, 'The book itself turns out to be, sadly, oddly, at times almost maddeningly, quite dull'.

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