The Erotics of Talk: Women's Writing and Feminist ParadigmsOxford University Press, 1996 - 240 pagine In this provocative rereading of the classic texts of the feminist literary canon, Carla Kaplan takes a hard look at the legacy of feminist criticism and argues that important features of feminism's own canon have been overlooked in the rush to rescue and identify. African-American women's texts, she demonstrates, often dramatize their distrust of their readers, their lack of faith in "the cultural conversation", through strategies of self-silencing and "self-talk". At the same time, she argues, the homoerotics of women's writing has too often gone unremarked. Not only does longing for an ideal listener draw women's texts into a romance with the reader, but there is an erotic excess which is part of feminist critical recuperation, itself. Drawing on a wide range of resources, from sociolinguistics and anthropology to literary theory, Kaplan's highly readable study proposes a new model for understanding and representing "talk". |
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In Search of an Ideal Listener | 3 |
THE POLITICS OF RECUPERATION | 21 |
Fantastic Collaboration and the Politics of Identification | 29 |
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