1st Edition
Critical Poetics of Feminist Refusals Voicing Dissent Across Differences
Critical Poetics of Feminist Refusals renders a vivid portrait of the intergenerational and intersectional dialogue between influential feminist writers on how to say no to the conditions of oppression, exclusion, and exploitation imposed by patriarchal and systemically racist capitalist societies. The book provides today’s readers and writers access to the powerful inventory of concepts and techniques that two generations of feminists have assembled for refusing domination and constituting fugitive forms of sociability and writing. Drawing on examples from feminist thinkers, Audre Lorde, Carla Lonzi, Hélène Cixous, Hortense Spillers, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Anne Boyer and Simone White, the book focuses on how the power dynamics of recognition tie the uses of language to the material conditions of discrimination in everyday life.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note
Crossing Paths of Feminist Refusals
- Autonomy and the Quotidian Revolt in the Writings of Carla Lonzi and Audre Lorde
- To Steal, to Fly Away Improperly. "Feminine" Lines of Flights and Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
- Minor Endings
Introductory Notes
"Shut Up. Or, Rather Speak": Carla Lonzi and the Reproduction of Writing Revolt’s Power
Thinking Against the Self : Carla Lonzi’s scrittura autocoscienziale
"Even When They Are Dangerous, Examine the Heart of those Machines You Hate." Audre Lorde’s Black Lesbian Feminist Poetics
"Who Said it Was Simple". Audre Lorde’s Uses of Anger
Introductory Notes
To be Propelled Out of the Self: Cixous’s Écriture Feminine
"Will the Economy of the Text, Its Woven Construction, Allow the Vibration to Be Heard?"
"To Hear You Have to See Clearly"
In the Interstice: Hortense Spillers’ Black Feminist Critical Poetics
The Missing Configuration of Terms of the Feminist Dialectics of the Sexes
"Like an Artist with No Form, She Becomes Dangerous"
Turning the Wor(l)ds Upside Down: Anne Boyer’s Poetry of Terrible Forms
The Open Book
No and Not Yet
"Is the Minor Space of a Hallucinated Freedom Nothing?" Reading with Simone White
"or, on being the other woman"
Making Inroads Toward an Unbounded Imagination of Refusal
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Federica Bueti is writer, editor, independent scholar and is a Writing Tutor of the MFA at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, NL.
