Michele Causse

Michele Causse is a lesbian theorist, translator and author living in France.

Early life

Causse was born in the Caniac-du-Causse region of Lot in France in 1936. [BIOGRAPHIE de Michèle CAUSSE, [http://www.revue-violette-leduc.net/ 'Revue Violette Leduc"] ] [Weil, Lise. "Trivia: A Journal of Ideas", issue 20 (1992)] She later lived in Tunisia, Italy, Martinique and the United States before emigrating to Canada. [ [http://www.michele-causse.com/biographie.shtml Michele Causse] ] She now lives in the southwest of France. [Causse, Michele. "Trivia Magazine", Issue 3, Contributor notes [http://www.triviavoices.net/archives/issue3/causse.html Trivia Magazine] ]

Theory

Canadian academic Clive Thompson has referred to Causse as a "writer of Radical lesbian texts" [Thompson, Clive. "Bakhtin and Feminist Projects: Judith Butler's Gender Trouble" in "Bakhtin: Carnival and Other Subjects", Ed: David Shepherd 1993 Rodopi, ISBN 9051834500, p213] In her works, she is critical of heterosexuality, stating that "as long as a woman wishes to please a man, she is inauthentic... She does not have the integrity, the un-corruptability that comes with not wishing to please." [Causse, Michele. "La Parole meteque", 1991, Montreal, pp17-18] . Causse is also critical of both the Women's Movement and of the concept of a homosexual movement, and has stated "I am not a feminist, I am not a homosexual, I am a radical lesbian," She believes that "the women's movement is sustained by lesbians in every country; it is a lesbian movement, profoundly lesbian. [Frédéric Martel, Jane Marie Todd, "The Pink and the Black: Homosexuals in France Since 1968", Stanford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0804732744, p81] She is also critical of the influence of patriarchy on lesbians, claiming that lesbians were "phallicized" in the 1980s by the male homosexual movement. [Frédéric Martel, Jane Marie Todd, "The Pink and the Black: Homosexuals in France Since 1968", Stanford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0804732744, p176]

Translations

Causse translates between the French, English and Italian languages. Her translations have included works by Herman Melville, Gertrude Stein, Ti-Grace Atkinson, Djuna Barnes, Jane Bowles, Willa Cather, Mary Daly, Ignazio Silone and Alice Munro.

Bibliography

*"L’Encontre", Paris, édition des Femmes, 1975
*"Lesbiana. Seven Portraits", Paris, Nouveau Commerce, 1980
*"Ecrits Voix d'Italie", Paris, éd. des femmes, l976
*"Berthe ou un demi-siècle auprès de l'Amazone" Paris, Tierce, l982
*"Petite réflexion sur Bartleby", Paris, Nouveau Commerce
*"Lettres à Omphale", Paris, Denoël-Gonthier, 1984
*"A quelle heure est la levée dans le désert ?", Ed. Trois, Laval, Québec, 1990
*"( ) (prononcer Parenthèse)", Ed. Trois, Laval, Québec, 1991
*" L’Interloquée-Les Oubliées de l’oubli-Dé/générée", essais, Ed. Trois, Laval, Québec, 1991
*"Le monde comme volonté et représentation", St Martin, Montréal, in "Emergence d'une culture au féminin"
*"Voyages de la grande naine en Androssie", Ed. Trois, Laval, Québec, 1993
*"Quelle lesbienne êtes-vous ?", Paris, Paroles de Lesbiennes, 1996
*"Contre le sexage, le bréviaire des Gorgones", essai, Paris, Balland « les modernes », 2000
*"Pour une politique textuelle inédite:L'alphalecte", L'harmattan in "Lesbianisme et féminisme'2005
*"Alma mater, père indigne" Espace lesbien, Toulouse, 2004
*"Qui a peur de Valerie Solanas?" Espace Lesbien, Toulouse, 2004
*"Concept d'amour né de l'écriture de ( )" Espace Lesbien 2006
*"Dé/figures du soi"
*"Hors de soi" in " ...disent-ils" ed. Ahla/Bagdam (Montréal, Toulouse), 2006

Multimedia

*(Cassette) "A la lettre "(ed. Anne-Marie Alonzo, Montréal)
*(Film) "Corps de paroles" (with Suzanne Vertue and Dianne Heffernan) Montréal ; " Une écrivain en terres occupées" réalisation Michel Garcia-Luna( ed. Luna prod) 2006
* (Video) "la narrée navrée":extrait d'une lecture pour le centenaire de Violette Leduc organiée à la médiathèque d'Arras

Articles

*"Claude Cahun ou la mutante héroïque" (2008) Bagdam
*"Inside Deep throat" (2006): commentary on the film Deep Throat (film) (in collaboration with Katy Barasc) [http://sisyphe.org/spip.php?rubrique50 Sysiphe] , 2006
*"Hommage à Monique Wittig" Bagdam, (2006)
*"Noir dessein (lettre à Nicolas Hulot)" Bagdam (2006)
*"A propos de Lynndie England : Tragédie de la mimesis ou comment muer l'objet en sujet répréhensible" (in collaboration with Katy Barasc) Sysiphe, (2004)
*"Sur le voile" Sisyphe
*"Le genre comme espace de contention" University of Beyrouth (2005)
*"Une politique textuelle inédite : l'alphalecte" (in Lesbianisme et féminisme) L'harmattan, (2002).
*"Penelopes : Pourquoi les gays ne peuvent-ils être les alliés objectifs des femmes"
*"L'université : alma mater ou père indigne" (Espace lesbien, 2002 Toulouse)

Link

* [http://www.michele-causse.com Michèle Causse]

References