Reference:
Review Excerpts 'Two chief axioms of feminist criticism state that all acts of language area
grounded in the dense network of partial positions (e.g., sexual, class, racial)
occupied by speaking subjects and that to claim to speak for all (women,
feminists, literary critics) is to speak from a position of assumed mastery and
false universality. This position is precisely the one we as feminists seek to
interrogate and dismantle, even though, as many of us have discovered,
assumed mastery and false universality constantly reassert themselves'
(263).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | claim | criticism |
language |
literary |
network |
state |
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