US-RPB-ms2012.027 Guide to the Claire Kahane papers1960-2021 (bulk 1976-2006) Brown University Library staff. Curatorial work provided by the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women on behalf of the Brown University Library. Brown University Library

2014-07-16

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Claire Kahane papers Kahane, Claire Ms.2012.027 5 Linear Feet 4 record cartons, and 2 document boxes 1960-2021 (1976-2006) The Claire Kahane papers contain writings, research materials, correspondence, and teaching materials related to her work in feminist literary theory, psychoanalytic theory, and Holocaust literature. The materials date from 1960-2021, with the bulk from 1976-2006. The collection is in English. One folder contains materials in German. Kahane (Claire) papers Biographical note

Claire Kahane was born in 1935 and was raised in New York. She received her B.A. from the City College of New York and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation was entitled "A Rage of Vision: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Flannery O'Connor's Fiction."

Professor Kahane taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1974-2000 and has been a Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at UC Berkeley. She has completed psychoanalytic training at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and has instructed at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.

In addition to authoring Passions of the Voice: Hysteria, Narrative and the Figure of the Speaking Woman, 1850—1915 (1995) and numerous articles and book chapters, Kahane is the co-editor of In Dora's Case: Freud, Hysteria, Feminism (1990) and The (M)Other Tongue: Essays in Feminist Psychoanalytic Interpretation (1985).

 Writings and Publications Series 1 1960-2008 1974-2008 Early Writing: short fiction, Gender and Patrimony 1960 1 1 Flannery O'Connor's Rage of Vision 1974 1 2 Geographies of Loss, drafts and revisions 1974-1995 1 3 Abstract of Flannery O'Connor: A Rage of Vision 1974-1975 1 4 A Rage of Vision, Dissertation c. 1975 1 5-6 Psychoanalyse und das Unheimliche, book (hardcover) 1981 1 7 A Rage of Vision: Flannery O'Connor's Idiom of Desire, unpublished 1985 1 8-9 Questioning the Maternal Voice 1988 1 10 Feminist Writing Group, SUNY Buffalo 1989-1990 1 11 Sublimation: Disgust, Desire and the Female Body 1990 1 12 "The Delicate Organisms and Theoretic Tricks of Henry James" by Stephanie Smith 1990 1 13 The Aesthetic Politics of Rage 1991 1 14 Freud's Sublimation: Disgust, Desire and the Female Body 1992 1 15 Gender and Voice in Transitional Phenomena 1993 1 16 The Woman With a Knife or the Chicken without a Head, typescript of paper presentation 1993 1 17 The Woman with a Knife or the Chicken Without a Head, presentation slides c. 1993 1 18 Passions of the Voice, introduction c. 1994 1 19 Giving It Up: Mourning in Academia 1995 1 20 Unpublished poems 1995, 1996, 1998 1 21 Passion of the Voice, marketing summary 1996 1 22 Contribution to PMLA forum 1996 1 23 Unpublished poems 1996 1 24 Geographies of Loss anthology c. 1996-2001 1 25 Dark Mirrors: A Feminist Reflection on Holocaust Narrative and the Maternal Metaphor, draft c. 2000 1 26 Holocaust Narrative and the Maternal Scream c. 2000 1 27 Autobiography for San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute 2000 1 28 The Uncanny and the Real: The Anticipation of the Abomination c. 2002 1 29 The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University Spring 2003 newsletter Spring 2003 6 1 Re-Vision of Rage: Flannery O'Connor and Me 2003-2004 1 30 From Hysteria to Trauma: An Odyssey, draft c. 2005 1 31 A Samizdat For Our Times, drafts 2006 1 32 The Smile of the Cheshire Cat: Finding the Author in the Text, draft and revisions 2008 1 33 Dancing out of Class, script for video 2008 1 34 Psychoanalysis/Feminisms by Peter Rudnytsky and Andrew Gordon: review n.d. 6 2 Transference and the Voice in Psychoanalysis: Freud and Dora n.d. 6 3 The uncanny and the Real: The Anticipation of the Abomination n.d. 6 4 Trauma and Writing in Holocaust Narrative, typescript 1 35 Holocaust Narrative and the Maternal Scream, drafts and notes 1 36 The Private I: Subjectivities in Feminist Crime Fiction, typescript 1 37 Proust as Philosopher, partial typescript 1 38 untitled partial typescript 1 39 Conference Materials Series 2 1980-2012 1996-2006 The Creative Use of Difference, conference notes by David Willbern 1980 2 1 The Creative Use of Difference: A Conference on Feminism: schedule 1980 6 5 New Orleans conference schedule and flight itinerary 1988 2 2 UC Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Consortium, attendees list and program 1996 2 3 History annd Memory: European Identity at the Millenium, ISSEI Conference in Utrecht, Netherlands 1996 2 4 Abstract of paper for ISSE conference 1996 2 5 International Conference on Narrative, program 1997 2 6 Trauma, Gender and Holocaust Narrative, "Black Milk" conference paper drafts 1997 2 7 The Art of Elizabeth Bishop conference 1999 2 8 Emory conference on Women and Power, Holocaust Narrative and the Power of the Maternal Metaphor typescript 2000 2 9 Notes from Emory conference on Women and Power 2000 2 10 Holocaust Trauma, Memory and Representation: program November 20, 2000 6 6 Holocaust Trauma and the Power of the Maternal Metaphor, conference presentation notes 2000 2 11 Jewish Artists in New York during the Holocaust Years, typescript and notes from lecture by Matthew Baigel 2001 2 12 Memory, Terror and Generations: The Enduring Impact of Trauma: program May 3-5, 2002 6 7 Transgenerational Trauma workshop, program and notes 2002 2 13 9/11 Conference notes, email, and paper typescript c. 2002 2 14 International Literature and Psychology Conference programs and certificate 2003 2 15 Transference and the Voice in Psychoanalysis, conference paper 2005 2 16 The Mourning Papers: UCICP conference 2006 2 17 San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis: program 2007-2008 6 8 Ian McEwan: Time and Trama, notes and draft 2010 2 18 Psychology and the Arts: program June 22-27, 2011 6 9 Psychology and the Arts: program July 4-8, 2012 6 10 IPSA conference notes 2 19 Holocaust conference notes 2 20 miscellaneous conference programs 2 21 Correspondence and Professional Materials Series 3 1976-2021 1978-2000 Professional Correspondence 1976-2000 2 22 Correspondence, English course catalogue 1978-2000 2 23 Women's group roster c. 1980 2 24 Promotional Materials: articles, reviews, introductions 1980-1999 2 25 Tenure materials 1980-1999 2 26 Correspondence: letters, postcards, notes 1980-2000 2 27 Correspondence with publishers Re: Rage of Vision 1981 2 28 Flyer for talk by Kahane: "Reading Dora: What Does a Woman Really Want?" 1983 6 11 Professional Correspondence 1985-1995 2 29 Personal correspondence 1987 6 12 Reviews and Responses: readers' reports, performance reports, teaching reviews c. 1988 2 30 Correspondence with Eunice Lipton 1989 2 31 Study group list February 28, 1989 6 13 Correspondence, reader's report, and corrections Re: Hearing Voices 1990 2 32 Response to Frederick Crews' article on Flannery O'Connor 1991 2 33 Promotional Materials: Reviews/Reports 1991-1994 2 34 Nancy K. Miller: Autobiographical Deaths, response 1992 2 35 Curriculum vitae 1993 2 36 Correspondence and writings by Jesse Lemisch and Naomi Weisstein 1993 2 37 Coming into Mourning: A Writing Life, by Madelon Sprengnether 1993 2 38 Passions of the Voice, reader's report 1994 2 39 Faculty profile 1994 2 40 Promotion materials 1994 2 41 Correspondence with publishers Re: Passions of the Voice 1994-1995 2 42 Professional correspondence 1994-1996 6 14 Professional correspondence 1994-2010 2 43 Personal correspondence 1995, 1997 6 15 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Evaluation 1996 2 44 Correspondence from Holocaust listserv Re: Ozick and Anne Frank 1997 2 45 Correspondence from Ernest G. Heppner, Tribute to Laura Margolis 1997 2 46 Response to Colleague in Psychobiography Group 1997 2 47 Reader's report on Katherine Snyder 1998 2 48 Correspondence with SUNY Buffalo Re: pay, leave, and retirement 1998-2000 2 49 Post-Retirement Correspondence 1998-2010 2 50 Victimology and the Untheorizability of Rape in Academic Feminist Discourse, by Carine M. Mardorossian 1999 2 51 Suzanne Fleischman photos and obituary 2000 2 52 Professional correspondence 2001-2006 6 16 Flyer for talk by Kahane: "Trauma at Home: Remembering 9/11" 2002 6 17 San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute Certificate of Completion 2006 2 53 Professional correspondence 2021 6 18 Playbills 2 54 Photographs 1975, 1984, 1994 2 55 Photo of Elizabeth Abel, Claire Kahane, and Madelon Sprengnether n.d. 6 21 Flyer for talk by Kahane: "Gender and {atrimony: Mourning the Dead Father" n.d. 6 19 Professional correspondence n.d. 6 20 Miscellaneous papers and flier 4 25 UC Berkeley references - Restricted 1973 4 28 Research Series 4 1976-2001 1976-2001 New Literary History vol. VIII offprint 1967-1977 3 1 See Under: Love by David Grossman, book review 1989 3 2 Articles Important to Reading of Bostonians c. 1989 3 3 Parents, Gender, and Education, by Miriam E. David 1992 3 4 United States Holocaust Museum Seminar 1999 3 5 Research for Trauma Project after 9/11 2001 3 6 Lichtenstein Articles: Identity and Sexuality 3 7 Psychoanalysis and Women articles 3 8 Psychoanalytical articles on symbol formation 3 9 D.W. Winnicott Essays and Articles 3 10 Articles by other authors 3 11 "Hip," Article on SUNY Buffalo English Department 3 12 Miscellaneous research articles 3 13 Miscellaneous notes 3 14 Annotated books 5 Teaching Materials Series 5 1978-2009 1983-2002 American Autobiography, syllabus and course materials 1978 3 15 Peter Heller, Freud seminar 1981-1983 3 16 Course notes on Lacan and Narration 1983 3 17 Freud seminar notes, syllabus, and readings 1983 3 18 ENG 329: The Gothic Novel, course evaluations c. 1983 3 19 Feminist Literary Theory and Psychoanalysis, course materials 1984 3 20 SUNY Buffalo English graduate programs, cover photograph 1986-1987 3 21 Articles used in Course on Gender and Representation c. 1986 3 22 Psychoanalytic Feminist Theory course materials 1987 3 23 Psychoanalysis and Narrative, course notes and readings 1988 3 24 Hysteria and Narrative, teaching notes 1990 3 25 Feminist Theory Courses, notes and syllabi 1992 3 26 English 681: Woolf and Kristeva syllabus 1995 6 22 Virginia Woolf and Julia Kristeva course notes, articles, and syllabi 1995 3 27 Julia Kristeva teaching materials c. 1995 3 28 Marion Milner essays on Virginia Woolf, used in teaching/writings c. 1995 3 29 Castration Fantasies and Facts c. 1995 3 30-32 Representations of Marriage and Women, Vivian Gornick c. 1995 3 33-34 Literature and Psychoanalysis, course materials 1997 3 35 Holocaust course materials 1997 3 36 Holocaust and American Literature, course materials 1997-2000 3 37 Holocaust and Trauma, Hebrew University course 1997-2000 3 38 Holocaust and American Literature, Hebrew University course 1998 3 39 ENG 100-11: The Holocaust in American Literature, course notes, readings, and syllabi 1999 4 1 Holocaust in Text and Image, syllabus and course materials 1999 4 2 Holocaust in Text and Image- Restricted 1999 4 26 Holocaust Writing and Trauma, course materials 1999-2000 4 3 ENG 100-7: The Holocaust in American Literature, articles, syllabi, and teaching notes 2000 4 4 ENG 342: The Holocaust in American Literature, course notes, readings, and syllabi 2000 4 5 ENG 470/569: Trauma, Memory, Text, course notes, readings, and syllabi 2000 4 6 The Holocaust in American Literature, syllabus and mid-semester evaluation 2000, 2002 4 7 Holocaust Trauma and Modern American Fiction, course materials c. 2002 4 8 Ian McEwan and the Modern Gothic, course materials 2009 4 9 Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, lecture notes for course on perversion 2010 4 10 Melanie Klein teaching materials 4 11 Feminist Writing course, articles and essays 4 12 Mourning, Loss, Representation and Writing, course materials 4 18 Andre Green teaching materials 4 14 Luce Irigaray teaching materials 4 15 Literature and the Subconscious, lecture notes 4 16 Feminism and Autobiography, Miller Vs. Rose, course notes 4 17 Holocaust graduate course materials 4 18 Holocaust, Trauma, and Literature, course materials 4 19 Gender and Sexual Difference, course materials 4 20-21 Course catalogues and pamphlets 4 22 Student Print Journals and Essays 1969-1997 4 23 Living by His Wits: The Buffoon and Male Survival by Peter F. Murphy 2006 4 24 Wago Kreider,"You Freud, Me Jane; Nostalgia, Part 3" - Restricted c. 1997 4 27 Floppy Disks Series 6 1991-2000 Courses, Papers on Gender and Holocaust Literature 1997-2000 5 Buffalo Desk - WIP 5 UC Berkeley Courses, WIP 2000-2002 5 Julia Eng Dept 2000 5 Psychoanalysis Talk, Trinity 2000 5 WIP Backups, holocaust 5 Rape and Revision 2002-2003 5 Uncanny 2002 5 Italy 1999 5 Powerbook 5300 Desktop #1 5 Buffalo - PSA Notes 5 Holocaust, WIP, Courses 2000 5 Julia Epstein Piece, Orick, Psychobio 2001 5 Berkeley Desktop, WIP 1999-2000 5 WIP, Italy 2000 5 WP 50 Part 2, Amer Lit 5 Woolf 5 Mourn WIP 1996 5 Mourning WIP 1995-1996 5 Haacken, Trinity 2000 5 Unknown 5 Courses: Amer UGS, Brit UGS 5 Holocaust 5 Holocaust 342 5 IPSA Abstract, Holocaust 1998-1999 5 Letters - Restricted 1997 5 Miller, Loss Biblio 1996 5 Psycho-anal 5 Lectures, Vita, Address, Letters - Restricted 5 WP5 Files: Letters and Vita - Restricted 1994 5 Claire WP5 Files 5 Visions 1-7 5 Courses 1992-1997 5 Book WIP, Letters - Restricted 5 Grad Courses, UG Short Story 5 PC Files 5 Letters - Restricted 5 ENG 342 and ENG 470-569 Website 2000 5 IPSA (Bib) 1993-1995 5 Spell 4.1, Printer, Data 5 Book Final JH 5 Geographies of Loss 5 ISSIE WIP, Berkeley Business 1996 5 Collection information Scope and Contents

The Claire Kahane papers consist of writings, research materials, correspondence, and teaching materials related to Kahane's positions in the English Departments of SUNY Buffalo and UC Berkeley. The materials range from 1960-2021 and span topics of feminist literary theory, psychoanalytic theory, trauma theory, and Holocaust literature.

Series 1 contains published and unpublished typescripts, drafts, and presentation slides from 1960-2008 (bulk 1974-2008), and is arranged chronologically.

Series 2 contains notes, drafts, programs, and related conference materials from 1980-2012 (bulk 1996-2006), arranged chronologically.

Series 3 contains correspondence with colleagues and publishers, Kahane's promotional and professional materials, and reviews of her own work and teaching. The materials range from 1978-2021 (bulk 1978-2000) and are arranged chronologically. This series also contians a folder of photographs from professional engagements.

Series 4 contains articles and publications that Kahane used in her writings and teaching. These materials are largely undated but range roughly from 1976-2001.

Series 5 contains course materials, lecture notes, readings, syllabi, and student publications. The materials range from 1978-2009 (bulk 1983-2002) and are arranged chronologically. At the end of the series are a small number of folders containing former students' published works.

Series 6 comprises floppy disks with course materials, works-in-progress, grant applications, and letters of recommendation dating from 1991-2000. Some material is restricted until 2080.

 Use of the materials

Researchers are advised that express written permission to reproduce, quote, or otherwise publish any portion or extract from this collection must be obtained from the Brown University Library. Although Brown University has physical ownership of the collection and the materials contained therein, it does not claim literary rights. It is up to the researcher to determine the owners of the literary rights and to obtain any necessary permissions from them.

 Preferred Citation

Claire Kahane papers, Ms. 2012.027, Box [#], Folder [#], Pembroke Center Archives, John Hay Library, Brown University.

 Arrangement

The collection is arranged into the following series:

Series 1: Writings, 1960-2008 (bulk 1974-2008) Series 2: Conference Materials, 1980-2012 (bulk 1996-2006) Series 3: Correspondence and Professional Materials, 1978-2021 (bulk 1978-2000) Series 4: Research, 1976-2001 Series 5: Teaching Materials, 1978-2009 (bulk 1978-2002) Series 6: Floppy Disks, 1991-2000 Access to the collection

There are no restrictions on access, except that the collection can only be seen by prior appointment. Some materials may be stored off-site and cannot be produced on the same day on which they are requested. Advance notice is required to view any audiovisual media or born-digital records that may exist in this collection. Audiovisual media and born-digital records in this collection may not have been reformatted yet. Researchers may request access to copies by contacting the John Hay Library with the collection name, collection number, and a description of the item(s) requested. Access to original physical audiovisual or born-digital media is restricted.

 Administrative information Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Claire Kahane

 Processing Information

This collection was processed by Daniel Putnam in 2014.

 Names Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. Feminist Theory Archive. Subjects Literary critics Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Psychoanalysis Feminist theory Literature -- Study and teaching -- United States Occupations College professors Types of Materials Syllabi Typescripts Floppy disks