File spoon-archives/french-feminism.archive/french-fem_1995/french-fem_Jun.95, message 22


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
>            
>
>

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