Archaeologies and utopias: Reassessing Kristeva’s relevance to feminist literary practice  

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Johnson, Tracy

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Feminist Theory vol. 3 no. 2 (Aug. 2002), page 169–181.
Topik: feminism; H.D.; history; identity; language; third space
Fulltext: 169.pdf (58.44KB)

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The predominance of patriarchally-based structures in Kristeva’s work sets up an uncomfortable dichotomy for feminist critics.Her 1979 essay ‘Le temps des femmes’ (translated as ‘Women’s Time’ in 1981) most explicitly articulates her own approach to feminism, addressing women’s troubled relationship to patriarchy in terms of time and space. Kristeva identifies three distinct positions in feminist thought: ‘equality’, ‘difference’ and an anticipated ‘third generation’ feminism that integrates the previous two attitudes, representing what she defines as a new ‘signifying space’. The value of the ‘third space’ is that it offers a method for proceeding beyond the either/or status offered by previous stages of feminist thought and analysis, challenging gender identity per se and bringing out the singularity of each individual subject. I explore ways of reading from the third space through examples of the ‘Cassandra’ myth and H.D.’s epic poem Helen in Egypt (1974), looking specifically at women’s relationship to patriarchal language.

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