Critical Poetics of Feminist Refusals

Voicing Dissent Across Differences
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-19852-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

Reihe: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Critical Poetics of Feminist Refusals renders a vivid portrait of the intergenerational and intersectional dialogue between influential feminist writers on how to say no to the conditions of oppression, exclusion, and exploitation imposed by patriarchal and systemically racist capitalist societies. The book provides today’s readers and writers access to the powerful inventory of concepts and techniques that two generations of feminists have assembled for refusing domination and constituting fugitive forms of sociability and writing. Drawing on examples from feminist thinkers, Audre Lorde, Carla Lonzi, Hélène Cixous, Hortense Spillers, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Anne Boyer and Simone White, the book focuses on how the power dynamics of recognition tie the uses of language to the material conditions of discrimination in everyday life.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bueti, Federica

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents



Acknowledgments

Note

Crossing Paths of Feminist Refusals

- Autonomy and the Quotidian Revolt in the Writings of Carla Lonzi and Audre Lorde

Introductory Notes

"Shut Up. Or, Rather Speak": Carla Lonzi and the Reproduction of Writing Revolt’s Power

Thinking Against the Self: Carla Lonzi’s scrittura autocoscienziale

"Even When They Are Dangerous, Examine the Heart of those Machines You Hate." Audre Lorde’s Black Lesbian Feminist Poetics

"Who Said it Was Simple". Audre Lorde’s Uses of Anger





- To Steal, to Fly Away Improperly. "Feminine" Lines of Flights and Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity

Introductory Notes

To be Propelled Out of the Self: Cixous’s Écriture Feminine

"Will the Economy of the Text, Its Woven Construction, Allow the Vibration to Be Heard?"

"To Hear You Have to See Clearly"

In the Interstice: Hortense Spillers’ Black Feminist Critical Poetics

The Missing Configuration of Terms of the Feminist Dialectics of the Sexes

"Like an Artist with No Form, She Becomes Dangerous"





- Minor Endings

Turning the Wor(l)ds Upside Down: Anne Boyer’s Poetry of Terrible Forms

The Open Book

No and Not Yet

"Is the Minor Space of a Hallucinated Freedom Nothing?" Reading with Simone White

"or, on being the other woman"



Making Inroads Toward an Unbounded Imagination of Refusal



Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Federica Bueti is writer, editor, independent scholar and is a Writing Tutor of the MFA at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, NL.