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This landmark collaboration between African American and white feminists goes to the heart of problems that have troubled feminist thinking for decades. Putting the racial dynamics of feminist interpretation center stage, these essays question such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the universal nature of psychoanalytic categories, and the role of race in the formation of identity. They offer new ways of approaching African American texts and reframe our thinking about the contexts, discourses, and traditions of the American cultural landscape. Calling for the racialization of whiteness and claiming that psychoanalytic theory should make room for competing discourses of spirituality and diasporic consciousness, these essays give shape to the many stubborn incompatibilities―as well as the transformative possibilities―between white feminist and African American cultural formations. Bringing into conversation a range of psychoanalytic, feminist, and African-derived spiritual perspectives, these essays enact an inclusive politics of reading. Often explosive and always provocative, Female Subjects in Black and White models a new cross-racial feminism.
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‘When we claim to have been injured by language, what kind of claim do we make?’ - Judith Butler, Excitable Speech Excitable Speech is widely hailed as a tour de force and one of Judith Butler’s most important books. Examining in turn debates about hate speech, pornography and gayness within the US military, Butler argues that words can wound and linguistic violence is its own kind of violence. Yet she also argues that speech is ‘excitable’ and fluid, because its effects often are beyond the control of the speaker, shaped by fantasy, context and power structures. In a novel and courageous move, she urges caution concerning the use of legislation to restrict and censor speech, especially in cases where injurious language is taken up by aesthetic practices to diminish and oppose the injury, such as in rap and popular music. Although speech can insult and demean, it is also a form of recognition and may be used to talk back; injurious speech can reinforce power structures, but it can also repeat power in ways that separate language from its injurious power. Skillfully showing how language’s oppositional power resides in its insubordinate and dynamic nature and its capacity to appropriate and defuse words that usually wound, Butler also seeks to account for why some clearly hateful speech is taken to be iconic of free speech, while other forms are more easily submitted to censorship. In light of current debates between advocates of freedom of speech and ‘no platform’ and cancel culture, the message of Excitable Speech remains more relevant now than ever.
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Une collection de quinze essais interdisciplinaires examinant l'histoire, la situation actuelle et l'évolution des alliances lesbiennes avec les féministes américaines. Les contributeurs explorent la signification sociale et esthétique des termes « lesbienne » et « féministe » dans le but de les réformer et de les renforcer.
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Comment les circonstances spécifiques dans lesquelles nous écrivons affectent-elles ce que nous écrivons ? Comment ce que nous écrivons affecte-t-il ce que nous devenons ? Comment pouvons-nous maintenir l'intégrité professionnelle et personnelle dans l'université d'aujourd'hui ? Dans une série d'écrits traditionnels et expérimentaux, aboutissement de dix années de travaux en cours, Laurel Richardson enregistre un parcours intellectuel, déplaçant les frontières et créant de nouvelles façons de lire et d'écrire. Appliquant l'imaginaire sociologique au processus d'écriture, elle relie sa vie à son travail. Profondément engageant, écrit de manière émouvante avec grâce, élégance et clarté, le livre stimule les lecteurs à situer leur propre écriture dans des contextes personnels, sociaux et politiques.
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This volume brings together 58 previously published essays on 19th and 20th century British and North American texts that were written from the mid-1970s to 1990 by feminist literary critics. These essays cover a variety of critical perspectives, including Anglo-American, French, Marxist, structuralist, new historicist, and psychoanalytic. The 13 sections of the book cover various issues in feminist criticism: institutions, methodologies, canon, tradition, body, desire, reading, discourse, ethnicity, history, class, men, and autobiography. Each section includes essays addressing the intersections of feminist concern with questions of class, race, sexual preference, and nationality. Contributors include Barbara Christian, Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar, Helene Cixous, and Elaine Showalter