- Feminist fiction, Girls, Intimidation, Fiction
Monique Wittig's first novel, *The Opoponax*, is about woman as girl. Told completely from inside the mind of a Catholic schoolgirl, it lays bare the violence of the girl underworld.
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- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Monique Wittig
- First published
- 1966
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Owen, Daughters, Simon and Schuster
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780913780152
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