Claire Kahane (born 1935 in

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) is an American writer, scholar and feminist literary critic. She is Professor Emerita of English at the

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, where she taught from 1974 to 2000. Kahane is the author of ''Passions of the Voice'', a study of narrative and "the strategies of hysteric discourse." Scholar Christine Wiesenthal, writing in the journal ''Victorian Review'', wrote that "the confluence of feminist, narrative, and psychoanalytic theory" in ''Passions of the Voice'' was "an innovative and provocative mix." Kahane is also the co-editor, with Charles Bernheimer, of ''In Dora's Case'', a collection of essays from a feminist perspective criticizing

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's efforts to "put words into Dora's mouth." Kahane completed her undergraduate education at the

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and earned her Ph.D. from the

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with a dissertation on the fiction of

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Bibliography

* (Co-editor, with Charles Bernheimer) ''In Dora's Case: Freud, Hysteria, Feminism'' (Columbia University Press, 1985; rpt.1990) * ''Passions of the Voice: Hysteria, Narrative, and the Figure of the Speaking Woman, 1850-1915'' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995) * (Co-editor, with Shirley Garner and Madelon Sprengnether) "The (M)Other Tongue:Essays in Feminist Psychoanalytic Interpretation" (Cornell University Press, 1985).

References

External links

Claire Kahane Papers
Pembroke Center Archives, Brown University
ClaireKahane.net
Official website's list of published works {{DEFAULTSORT:Kahane, Claire Living people 1935 births City College of New York alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni University at Buffalo faculty Feminist theorists