Michele Causse

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

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[edit] Early life

Causse was born in the Caniac-du-Causse region of Lot in France. She later lived in Tunisia, Italy, Martinique and the United States before emigrating to Canada.[1] She now lives in the southwest of France.[2]

[edit] Theory

Clive Thompson has refered to her as a "writer of Radical lesbian texts"[3] In her works, Causse 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."[4] ,

[edit] Publishing

Her authored books include L'Encontre, Voyages de la Grande Naine en Androssie, Les oubliées de l'oubli and Contre le sexage, a theoretical work on language and lesbian creativity published in France in 2000.[5]

[edit] Translations

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

[edit] References

  1. ^ Michele Causse
  2. ^ Causse, Michele. Trivia Magazine, Issue 3, Contributor notes Trivia Magazine
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ Causse, Michele. La Parole meteque, 1991, Montreal, pp17-18
  5. ^ Essays