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Ismaël Jude for "Grief": a wild and archaic language to express a woman's anger

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Ishmael Jude.

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By: Pascal Paradou Follow

Borrowing the voice of an imaginary sister of Pierre Rivière – a 19th century assassin whose handwritten confessions were exhumed by Michel Foucault – the narrator draws on other secular figures of abused femininity in order to exorcise her childhood wounds. .

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Ishmael Jude

, writer.

Author of “Grievance”, published by

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