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• Title: Women's Rights and Women's Writing.
• Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
• Release Date : January 22, 2007
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 246 KB

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Clarice Lispector, an avant-garde Brazilian writer, inherits Virginia Woolf s writing legacy, which she extends until her death in 1977; Helena Cixous discovers Lispector in 1978 and claims Lispector's writing best exemplifies "ecriture feminine, " which appears in Cixous's La jeune nee in 1975. These qualities in Lispector's writing that perform ecriture feminine, which will be identified in Agua viva and discussed throughout this study, are visible forty-four years earlier in Woolf s The Waves. Correspondences between Woolf and Lispector illustrate how both transform women's writing by challenging phallologocentrism. Woolfs alternative aesthetics drive Lispector's experimental writing and culminate in Cixous's anti-foundational thinking about writing. Distancing themselves from male discourse, challenging and dismantling systematic modes of thinking that close off and totalize, writing against the desire to appropriate meaning and annihilate mystery, and making writing their subject; they transfigure themselves and others by "the act of writing." To understand Woolf s opposition to inherited modes of male discourse in The Waves, it is important to read her characters as either representatives of or alternatives to tradition. Percival, for instance, is both patriarchy and the Bildungsroman literary tradition; his story is told in the scrambled voices of six friends. Neville marks Percival's "pagan indifference." Louis notes, "His magnificence is that of some mediaevel commander." (1) Bernard calls him a Romantic hero. Classical, Medieval, and Romantic aesthetics, along with British imperialism, accompany Percival to his death in India. What remains of tradition is blurred in a sublime confusion that will give way to alternative ways of being in the world, when reading the phenomena of writing allows one to read and thereby transform oneself, restore one's rights, and enjoy one's own as well as uphold another's freedoms.

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