The oppression of love, sex, and desire are built into the very nature of the kind of communities... more The oppression of love, sex, and desire are built into the very nature of the kind of communities in which we huddle.. .. We do all this stuff, I think, because we're so afraid of not belonging, so afraid of being alone.-My Gender Workbook 93 I. SUBJECT(IFICAT)ION, BE/LONGING, AUTOBIOGRAPHY
I would like to introduce my topic-the reception in North America of French feminist theory in tr... more I would like to introduce my topic-the reception in North America of French feminist theory in translation-by citing an exchange between three American feminist scholars, an exchange occasioned by a 1981 Yale French Studies special issue entitled "Feminist Readings: French Texts/American Contexts." The participants in this forum were invited to talk about their responses to French feminist thought, and, not surprisingly, their conversation soon turned to the subject of translation as a matter of vital and pressing concern: Susan Gubar: I would just speak for a moment about the people that I feel are bridge figures between French theoretical/critical thinking and the American literary historical establishment ...I wonder if other people feel the same sort of dependence on those figures who really do crucially important translations (trans-lations) carrying across from one culture to another, from one language to another, and from one set of ideas to another. Carolyn Allen: I feel the same dependency especially in reading French writers whose French is very taken up with word play, but it frustrates me. You can't always tell how much has been lost in translation. And my experience has been that other American feminist critics are also dependent on what has been translated. Sandra Gilbert: And you understand what you are trying to do without when you see how fascinating the work done in 55
... The belonging of such a subject, then, is a split consciousness marked by the slash in "... more ... The belonging of such a subject, then, is a split consciousness marked by the slash in "be/longing." The antidote to this splitting, to this othering, is m/othering; Nourbese Philip explains why it is so important "to keep the slash in all its negative connotations in m/othering ...
The oppression of love, sex, and desire are built into the very nature of the kind of communities... more The oppression of love, sex, and desire are built into the very nature of the kind of communities in which we huddle.. .. We do all this stuff, I think, because we're so afraid of not belonging, so afraid of being alone.-My Gender Workbook 93 I. SUBJECT(IFICAT)ION, BE/LONGING, AUTOBIOGRAPHY
I would like to introduce my topic-the reception in North America of French feminist theory in tr... more I would like to introduce my topic-the reception in North America of French feminist theory in translation-by citing an exchange between three American feminist scholars, an exchange occasioned by a 1981 Yale French Studies special issue entitled "Feminist Readings: French Texts/American Contexts." The participants in this forum were invited to talk about their responses to French feminist thought, and, not surprisingly, their conversation soon turned to the subject of translation as a matter of vital and pressing concern: Susan Gubar: I would just speak for a moment about the people that I feel are bridge figures between French theoretical/critical thinking and the American literary historical establishment ...I wonder if other people feel the same sort of dependence on those figures who really do crucially important translations (trans-lations) carrying across from one culture to another, from one language to another, and from one set of ideas to another. Carolyn Allen: I feel the same dependency especially in reading French writers whose French is very taken up with word play, but it frustrates me. You can't always tell how much has been lost in translation. And my experience has been that other American feminist critics are also dependent on what has been translated. Sandra Gilbert: And you understand what you are trying to do without when you see how fascinating the work done in 55
... The belonging of such a subject, then, is a split consciousness marked by the slash in "... more ... The belonging of such a subject, then, is a split consciousness marked by the slash in "be/longing." The antidote to this splitting, to this othering, is m/othering; Nourbese Philip explains why it is so important "to keep the slash in all its negative connotations in m/othering ...
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