File spoon-archives/french-feminism.archive/french-feminism_1996/96-06-15.140, message 227


From: meaghan-AT-utdallas.edu
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 12:24:34 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Re: prenumeration (fwd)


Melissa,

Yes, I think you an I are ssing this in like ways.  That betweeness 
allows both subjects to leave their , um, "ego" to use a sloppy owrd, 
behind and meet each other "clean" and curious, it's a neutral turf sort 
of thing where judgement is suspended for a time, both about self and 
other.  That's what really attracts me to I's book.  This ethic can, and 
I think should, be explored in terms of dynamics other than those of 
sexual difference.  I take sexual difference to a base-line, or model, 
sort of difference.  Irigaray also characterized it this way in -Thinking 
the Difference- a very practical essay that elaborates some of the socila 
changes needed for sexual difference to take its proper place in the 
social.  Anyway, I plan on looking a various sorts of poetics that both 
allow and demand the reader to take the sort of ethical stance she 
describes, but in relation to poems an reading.  I know that's vague, but 
I'm sort fo in a hurry.  I'll send more later if you're interested.

Thanks for the response,
Meaghan

Meaghan Roberts				| ... in our interpreted world...
Ph.D. Candidate - Ethics and Literature |
The University of Texas at Dallas	|
Meaghan-AT-UTDALLAS.EDU			|	



   

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