Claire Kahane Explained

Claire Kahane (born 1935 in New York City)^[1] is an American writer, scholar and feminist literary critic. She is Professor Emerita of English at the University at Buffalo, where she taught from 1974 to 2000.^[2] Kahane is the author of Passions of the Voice, a study of narrative and "the strategies of hysteric discourse."^[3] 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."^[4] Kahane is also the co-editor, with Charles Bernheimer, of In Dora's Case, a collection of essays from a feminist perspective criticizing Sigmund Freud's efforts to "put words into Dora's mouth."^[5] Kahane completed her undergraduate education at the City College of New York and earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley with a dissertation on the fiction of Flannery O'Connor.

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).

External links

• Claire Kahane Papers, Pembroke Center Archives, Brown University
• ClaireKahane.net, Official website's list of published works

Notes and References

1. Web site: Claire Kahane Papers: Biographical Note. Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online. Brown University. September 1, 2018.
2. Web site: Emeritus Faculty. Department of English. University at Buffalo. September 1, 2018.
3. DiBattista. Maria. Modern Philology. Passions of the Voice: Hysteria, Narrative and the Figure of the Speaking Woman, 1850-1915. 559–562. 95. 1998. 4. 10.1086/mp.95.4.438923. 438923.
4. Wiesenthal. Christine. Victorian Review. Passions of the Voice: Hysteria, Narrative, and the Figure of the Speaking Woman by Claire Kahane. 212–216. 22. 2. 1996. 27794847. 10.1353/vcr.1996.0029. 162784300.
5. Robinson. Lilian S.. Signs. In Dora's Case: Freud, Hysteria, Feminism. 609–611. 13. 3. 1988. 3174190. 10.1086/494450.