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Escritura Feminina
Secondary reading and theory
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Tierney-Tello on what Peri-Rossi denounces | “an oppressive, patriarchal logic ... founded upon binary systems that exclude and marginalize the other” |
| Peri-Rossi with Camps on exile and identity | “Ya que [el exilio] obliga a replantearlo todo, la identidad o sucumbe o se ensancha” |
| Tierney-Tello on exile and gender | “Exile can thus also be a genderic condition” |
| Tierney-Tello on the relevance of gender identities | “identities are always political: how they are constructed and ultimately deployed within systems of power relations” |
| Tierney-Tello on what the novel challenges | “what constitutes a ‘natural’ order” |
| Kantaris on the role of the woman | "internal enemy, excluded yet central to the construction of powerful phallic identity |
| Kantaris on the role of Equis | “an ideal mouthpiece for the examination of socially constructed identity” |
| Kantaris on "the feminine" | Anything "beyond the phallus"... in (or beyond) the ‘name’ of a certain heterogeneity, plurality, and irreductibility” |
| Kantaris on those who reject established identity categories | They are "declared mad, isolated, and left to die” |
| Sánchez Lopera on delirium as productive | “El que delira ve la fragilidad que yace en la mayor ilusión de todas: que el capital, el poder, el Estado son destellos que nos fascinan, que nos hacen parte de ello" |
| Sánchez Lopera on fragmented identity | “Una especie de desfiguración del yo que da paso a un retrato de la sociedad” |
| Sánchez Lopera on Restrepo's aim | To offer “una nueva composición, no de una cura.” |
| Vanden Berghe on entrapment | “la novela sugiere que uno solo puede escapar…enloqueciendo o yéndose del país.” |
| Vanden Berghe on social climbing | "la movilidad social…es imposibilitada” |
| Vanden Berghe on the family facade | Built on the need to "cerrar e invisibilizar" |
| Butler on power | "power can be neither withdrawn nor refused, but only redeployed” |
| Butler on gender as a construction | Inherently performative and subjects must work in boundaries of gender norms |
| Rancière on "la police" order | Social order and structure that assigns everyone their place in society |
| Rancière on "la politique" | When the marginalised assert their presence and disrupt established structure, reconfiguring the shared perception of reality |
| Foucault on "The Ship of Fools" | Madness is used as an othering tool to exclude or imprison those who do not fit with societal norms - new notion of outcasts (lepers -> fools) |
| Jímenez on the existence of "feminine" texts | They exist because “hay una situación femenina, no porque haya necesariamente una esencia femenina” |
| Richard on the "feminine" | Redefines "feminine" as a critical position of marginality and disruption that challenges dominant patriarchal discourses through fragmentation and resistance |
| Cixous on the "false woman" | Refers to the female image constructed by men in society and in literature, e.g. sensitive, ditsy, dramatic |
| Cixous on writing | “writing is precisely the very possibility of change, the space that can serve as a springboard for subversive thought" |
| Cixous on the two male perceptions of women | “They riveted us between two horrifying myths: between the Medusa and the abyss” |
| Kantaris on the nature of exile | “these two opposed discourses (of exile and confinement, of exilio and insilio) now form a double-bind” |