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Disavowals; or, Cancelled Confessions

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Also known as: “Aveux non avenus”

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…was Aveux non avenus (1930; Disavowals; or, Cancelled Confessions), a type of autobiography that Cahun referred to as an “anti-memoir.” The volume, a collaboration between Cahun and Moore, included text and photomontages. In the text, which departs radically from a linear or chronological telling of her life, she talks the…
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