Pushing the dichotomies : specularising Djuna Barnes’s nightwood, through the lens of Luce Irigaray

“I felt something akin to the possibility of a different discovery of myself” Irigaray, Elemental Passions. Irigaray’s quotation shines light on the area her works deals with: rediscovering the woman as a subject, devoid from any assimilation to male or masculine history. She demands for a new l...

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Main Author: Cassandra, Christopher
Other Authors: Angela Anne Frattarola
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2012
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-487102019-12-10T11:03:28Z Pushing the dichotomies : specularising Djuna Barnes’s nightwood, through the lens of Luce Irigaray Cassandra, Christopher Angela Anne Frattarola School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities “I felt something akin to the possibility of a different discovery of myself” Irigaray, Elemental Passions. Irigaray’s quotation shines light on the area her works deals with: rediscovering the woman as a subject, devoid from any assimilation to male or masculine history. She demands for a new language to articulate the Feminine and critiques the Western masculine discourse of sex, gender and women. Her writings have placed her in the category of being a postmodern feminist writer, as she takes a step beyond modern feminist writers to explore the psychology, linguistics and body of the Woman. Writers who come under the title “Postmodern feminists” are defined as being critical of “modern intellectual and social traditions” as they “problematize and question the assumptions of modern feminism” (Flynn, 13) She, together with other writers who wrote during her time, argue that women, feeling, sensing, behaving and desiring differently from men is not because of an anatomical difference but rather a social construct. She believes that discourse too plays a major role in restricting and confining women to the place they are at. Therefore, if women want to achieve ‘salvation’ from the male dominance and language, we need to move beyond-maybe even break away from-the works of the modern feminist writers who remain bounded to the masculine discourse. Bachelor of Arts 2012-05-08T08:46:07Z 2012-05-08T08:46:07Z 2012 2012 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48710 en Nanyang Technological University 39 p. application/pdf
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Pushing the dichotomies : specularising Djuna Barnes’s nightwood, through the lens of Luce Irigaray
description “I felt something akin to the possibility of a different discovery of myself” Irigaray, Elemental Passions. Irigaray’s quotation shines light on the area her works deals with: rediscovering the woman as a subject, devoid from any assimilation to male or masculine history. She demands for a new language to articulate the Feminine and critiques the Western masculine discourse of sex, gender and women. Her writings have placed her in the category of being a postmodern feminist writer, as she takes a step beyond modern feminist writers to explore the psychology, linguistics and body of the Woman. Writers who come under the title “Postmodern feminists” are defined as being critical of “modern intellectual and social traditions” as they “problematize and question the assumptions of modern feminism” (Flynn, 13) She, together with other writers who wrote during her time, argue that women, feeling, sensing, behaving and desiring differently from men is not because of an anatomical difference but rather a social construct. She believes that discourse too plays a major role in restricting and confining women to the place they are at. Therefore, if women want to achieve ‘salvation’ from the male dominance and language, we need to move beyond-maybe even break away from-the works of the modern feminist writers who remain bounded to the masculine discourse.
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