Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 16:11:21 +0200 From: Cecilia.Falk-AT-lib.luth.se (Cecilia Falk) Subject: Re: Irigaray and the many ways of being a mother Barbara, you seem to read and work a little in my direction. I=B4ve read Irigaray and Julia Kristeva in order to work with a swedish female novelist>( specifically a novel publ. 1950) . I found out that underlying her text - the author=B4s- in this specific novel runs a dialogue concerning motherhood and the sensual love between son/mother father/mother. The author tries to rediscover/relive/make it visible this loveact, this body-to-body act, in order to find the source to her language, her creative force (her female," language poetique") . I=B4ve just entered this diskussion on the net and takes part of all mails with great interest. But few seem to be using frech-feministic psycho-analytic theory as a way of analyzing female fiction. Maybe there are more of us out there in the universe? Cecilia > > Hi David, Judith and Pauline ! > > Just so you don't feel so alone: I'm a re-subscriber. Had to > leave the list a couple of months ago, but I'm looking forward to > following the discussions again -- that is, if any materialize ;-) > > I'm afraid I can't be counted on to contribute much. I've really > read more in the area of French and Quebecoise women novelists > (ex : Marie Cardinal, Anne Hebert), but I'd like to learn more about > Irigaray, Cixous, et cie > > Is it an infringement of copyright if I post a beautiful, > inspiring snippet from a speech Irigaray gave in Quebec in > 1980? It's from _Le Corps-a`-corps avec la mere_ (Montreal: > Editions de la pleine lune, 1981, p. 27-28): > > <<Il importe aussi que nous decouvrions et affirmons que nous > sommes toujours meres des lors que nous sommes femmes. Nous > mettons au monde autre chose que des enfants, nous creons et > procreons autre chose que des enfants: de l'amour, du desir, > du langage, de l'art, du social, du politique, du religieux, etc. > Mais cette creation, cette procreation, nous a seculairement > ete interdite et il faut que nous nous reapproprions cette > dimension maternelle qui nous appartient, en tant que femmes.>> > > OK, don't send the Internet police after me! It's just too > beautiful to keep to myself... > > > Amities. > --Barbara > > Barbara Quintiliano > Falvey Memorial Library > Villanova University > Villanova, PA > bquintili-AT-ucis.vill.edu > > > ----- Lule=E5 University Library ----- ------------------
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