Diane Michelle Elam is an American

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writer, the author of ''Feminism and Deconstruction: Ms. en Abyme'' (1994), ''Romancing the Postmodern'' (1992) and co-editor (with Robyn Wiegman) of ''Feminism Beside Itself'' (1995). A recurrent theme in her work is an argument against the possibility of a complete and definitive representation of woman.Gorton, Kristyn
Diane Elam's Work
1999. Retrieved June 27, 2007.

Life

Elam was born on April 17, 1958 in

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. She is the daughter of father, Douglas Bradley and mother, Leslie J. (Parman) Elam. Elam went to

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in 1980, and graduated from

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with a Masters of Arts in 1984 and received her Doctor of Philosophy from Brown as well in 1988. Elam was also professor of English literature and critical and cultural theory at

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, at

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in Bloomington in the 1990s, and at

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in Pennsylvania. Before his death in an airplane crash in 1994, she was married to fellow academic Bill Readings, a professor of Comparative Literature at the

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Works

*Diane Elam; Robyn Wiegman, ''Feminism beside itself'' New York ; London : Routledge, 1995. * ''Romancing the postmodern'', London ; New York : Routledge, 1992. * ''Feminism and deconstruction : Ms. en abyme'', London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

References

External links

*Gorton, Kristyn
Diane Elam's Work
1999. Retrieved June 27, 2007.

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