Naslov
Écriture Féminine Manifesto: (Re)writing the Avant-Garde

Autori
Dakić, Mirela

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
5th International Conference for PhD Students "Revolution and Revolutions in Art"

Mjesto i datum
Ljubljana, Slovenija, 12.09.2019. - 13.09.2019

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
écriture féminine, avant-garde, manifesto

Sažetak
If we consider the question of the revolutionary potential of art from the feminist perspective, we will find some of the most radical elaborations of this subject in the 1970’s French feminist literary criticism. The concepts developed within the feminist current of the 70’s French literary theory, focused on language as the site of resistance and (sexual) emancipation – such as Julia Kristeva’s semotic, Luce Irigaray’s parler femme and Hélène Cixous’s écriture féminine, were often criticized as “essentialist” in theoretical contributions, and more often simplified in the literary criticism in general (the treatment of female authors in the Croatian literature in the 1980’s is not an exception). Having this in mind, my paper will focus on certain neglected aspects of the poetics of écriture féminine conceptualized by Hélène Cixous – its relations with the avant- garde, following the insights from the preface of Hélène Cixous’s collection of essays titled "Coming to Writing" (1991), written by Susan Rubin Suleiman, one of the author’s most important interpreters. In the mentioned text Suleiman points out that Cixous develops the concept of écriture féminine using the vocabulary of early Surrealism – and thus rewrites the avant-garde by feminizing its poetic strategies. Elaborating Suleiman’s claim, the paper will consider some of Cixous’s key texts as manifestoes and the relation of the idea of writing they establish with the ones in avant-garde manifestoes. The analysis will further move from the shared aspects of the texts towards their implications on the “antiessentialist” theoretical critiques of écriture féminine and the essentialist tendencies of its reception in literary criticism.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Književnost

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