ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DISEUSE
From French, feminine of diseur speaker, from dire to speak, from Latin dīcere.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DISEUSE»
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diseuse in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
diseuse and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The World Contracted to Recognizable Images
Through the diseuse, Cha accomplishes her post-colonial rewriting of the muses
and the recovery of the forgotten history of Cha's mother and Korean nation. If the
structure that informs Dictee is that between the one who dictates and the one ...
2
Narratives of Citizenship: Indigenous and Diasporic Peoples ...
Not surprisingly, perhaps, the Elitere section in Dictee is “dominated by the
diseuse, who figures in this text as the very condition of alterna- tive speaking” (
51). The diseuse is introduced, however, prior to any of the sections dedicated to
(or ...
Aloys N.M. Fleischmann, Nancy Van Styvendale, Cody McCarroll, 2012
3
Tracing the Maternal: Memory and Writing in Contemporary ...
This multiplicity of subjectivity disappears with the woman walking into the misty
whiteness in Elitere Lyric Poetry where there is no mark of subject but a presence
of diseuse. Unlike Love Poetry, the Lyric Poetry section is composed of two still ...
4
Apparitions of Asia : Modernist Form and Asian American ...
(4) The initial invocation of the exile in the punctuation marks of the failed
dictation exercise now takes on the flesh of the diseuse herself: “Punctuation.
She would become, herself, demarcations.” She is herselfa border between
these other ...
5
The New Anthology of American Poetry: Vol. III: ...
Let the one who is diseuse.4 Diseuse de bonne aventure. Let her call forth. Let
her break open the spell cast upon time upon time again and again. With her
voice, penetrate earth's floor, the walls of Tartaurus5 to circle and scratch the
bowl's ...
Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano, 2012
6
Transnationalism and Resistance: Experience and Experiment ...
The noun “diseuse”, which appears in this passage and is also the title of the
beginning section of DICTEE, is rare used alone, but it reminds the reader of the
expression “diseuse de bonne aventure” (“fortune teller”), which Cha mentions
later, ...
Adele Parker, Stephenie Young, 2013
7
Other Sisterhoods: Literary Theory and U.S. Women of Color
In the new configuration of unspeakability, the greatest threat is of forgetfulness
and of the contingency and unavailability of shared communities. The repeated
injunctions in Dictee to the mythical powers of the diseuse ("Let her call forth.
Sandra Kumamoto Stanley, 1998
8
The Fragmented Female Body and Identity: The Postmodern, ...
The prologue depicts a diseuse, or female speaker, who Kun Jong Lee notes is
probably "an immigrant girl" trying to speak like "native speakers" (82).
Interestingly, the word "diseuse" denotes a woman who is skilled in speech and
who ...
9
Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits
The title of the poem itself is a tribute to the labors of Dictee's diseuse; the title
word itself returns us to a crucial opening in Dictee: "She makes complete her
duration" (28). We must remember that this line describes the diseuse in her
readiness ...
10
Gallery of British artists: from the days of Hogarth to the ...
La diseuse de bonne aventure est une des productions de sir Josué Reynolds
les plus estimées ; heureux dans le choix du sujet , le peintre l'a été également
dans la composition et le travail. C'est à juste titre que ce tableau a toujours été ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DISEUSE»
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diseuse is used in the context of the following news items.
Ann Hallenberg, l'électrique
Pour calmer le jeu on ira l'entendre dans le Tito Manlio où les airs mélancoliques de Servilia soulignent quelle diseuse et styliste hors pair elle ... «Forum Opéra, Feb 15»
The Paris of Toulouse Lautrec
... while in the background singer Yvette Guilbert—known as a diseuse for her half sung-half spoken lyrics—can be seen wearing her signature ... «Highbrow Magazine, Sep 14»
Drag great Charles Busch swans into Feinstein's this week
“Like Dietrich,” he says, “I've sort of reinvented myself again as a cabaret diseuse. Honestly, this has been a kind of lovely surprise, this cabaret ... «SFGate, Sep 14»
BWW Reviews: Consummate Actress Annette Bening Brings RUTH …
Renowned actress Ruth Draper (1884-1956) defied description, often referred to as a monologist, a recitalist or diseuse. She wrote her own ... «Broadway World, Apr 14»
Kate Middleton, à 11 ans : Une Fair Lady à l'accent hilarant face à …
... femme demandée en mariage par un propriétaire terrien mais promise, selon une diseuse de bonne aventure, à épouser un homme riche. «Pure People, Jan 14»
L'Heure exquise x 8
... et Renée Camia plus fine diseuse, plus spirituelle et moins divette que Lina Dachary, héroïne incontournable de tant de concerts de la RTF. «Forum Opéra, Jan 14»
Mabel Mercer Foundation hosts concert to honor Mabel Mercer …
That's not the diseuse way of doing it — to speak it so clearly. Mabel would sing on the tone most of the time. But she would get off it. «New York Daily News, May 13»
Jeanne Poisson, marquise de Pompadour
Repensant aux prédictions d'une diseuse de bonne aventure lui promettant l'amour du roi, elle s'est peu à peu forgée à cette idée. Jeanne ... «Histoire pour Tous, May 13»
"Die Juden sind an allem schuld"
"Friedrich der Große" hatte gehofft, mit Hilfe jener vier Strophen, die die Diseuse Annemarie Hase schnell zum Gassenhauer der Hauptstadt ... «DIE WELT, Mar 13»
Montmartre Show Evokes Belle Epoque of Can-Can Girls
was a not-too-distant relative to the hookers and lushes the great diseuse Yvette Guilbert impersonated at the Chat Noir. “Autour du Chat Noir: ... «Bloomberg, Jan 13»
