Ryder is a multi-voiced, multi-faceted novel, a roman à clef by Djuna Barnes about her trauma, her family, her polygamist, free-loving father, her scamming, enabling grandmother, her sexual abuse as a child, and female oppression. “It covers fifty years of history of the Ryder family: Sophia Grieve Ryder, like Zadel a former salon hostess fallen into [...]
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Écriture Féminine
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Écriture, Écriture Féminine, Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Laugh of the Medusa, Laurent-Honoré Marqueste, Medusa, Nancy Farmer, Omnia Vanitas Review, Phallogocentrism on February 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In The Laugh of the Medusa, Hélène Cixous speaks of female oppression from the phallogocentric structures inherent in language, in all cultural discourse, all signs, in all texts. Women are silenced, backed into a corner, told their nature, their sex is an abyss, a mysterious dark room, an unexplored, yet claimed country. First, Derrida says [...]
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