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Nathalie Sarraute, Monique Wittig, and Anne Garréta, despite critical acclaim, have received relatively limited scholarly attention from the North American academic community. Annabel Kim aims to rectify the situation by challenging what has come to be an accepted equation of French feminist thought with a politics and aesthetics of difference as articulated in the writings of Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, and Hélène Cixous. Kim explores the critical and fictional writings of Sarraute, Wittig, and Garréta in an effort to explicate and valorize their contributions to modern thought and literature. In a departure from the feminist discourse on écriture féminine, Kim's strength is her ability to craft a careful...