Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 23:28:30 -0500 (EST) From: "Mark Logan and Kathleen O'Grady" <kerouack-AT-nic.wat.hookup.net> Subject: Re: Do FFs comment on each other's work? I have never seen Kristeva (to my memory) make *overt* references to Cixous or Irigaray, though she often refers to them indirectly. There are references in many places, but the most obvious is in her now renown "Women's Time", to that type of feminist writing practice which celebrates the feminine. Her remarks are always derogatory, and quite often funny (or meant that way!). Cixous represents the "second wave" of feminist writing that JK critiques in "Women's Time". In fact, you could probably construct a reading that posits WT as a direct reaction against the rise of Cixous feminism in France. During a conference paper in Leeds, England, Toril Moi also referred to a passage in JK's early work (as early as Revolution in Poetic Language) where she ridicules those writers (here, referring to Irigaray) who obsess with caves and such. I do not have the exact reference, though -- sorry! But most of her references, in my reading, are to Cixous and her version of feminism. This is the type of feminist practice that JK wants to distance herself from. And, of course, is also associated with her troubled past with Editions des femmes (MLF) and other notable feminists in France. See also, her very negative remarks about this group in _The Samourai_ (where she refers to them as ugly and repressed). I don't think she has Cixous in mind here, though, but the press that (editions des femmes) which gave her a hard time over her publication of Des Chinoises. (For those of you who don't know, Les Samourais is a thinly veiled autobiography -- a roman a clef -- surrounding the May 1968 events and afterward, and features many notable French thinkers). Hope that helps a bit! *********************************************************************** Kathleen O'Grady Trinity College, University of Cambridge ko10001-AT-hermes.cam.ac.uk or kerouack-AT-hookup.net Mailing address: PO Box 31004, 25 Frederick Street, Kitchener, Ontario Canada N2H S67 --- from list french-feminism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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