Critical Madness, Enunciative Excess
The Figure of the Madwoman in Postmodern Feminist Texts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2408101 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Annette Schlichter |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 308-329 |
| Publication date | 2003-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1532708603254434 |
| OpenAlex | W2077047050 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 18 |
This article provides a comparison of the politics of representation through the performance of hysteria and madness in Luce Irigaray's collection of essays, This Sex Which Is Not One, and Kathy Acker's novel, Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream. Through close readings of Irigaray's and Acker's texts, the article explores how these critical, feminist projects question the mechanisms and effects of a dominant tradition in which they participate at the same time. These readings argue against a widespread feminist position which claims that the use of 'the madwoman' restricts feminist theory either to silence or to a powerless, delirious, speaking position. Rather, this article shows that the figure does not exclusively symbolize the restrictions of feminist theory through dominant discourses but that it aids postmodern authors such as Irigaray and Acker in the creation of an excessive politics of enunciation, which destabilizes and reconfigures the conditions of representation
Aesthetics · Art · Dream · Epistemology · Feminism · Feminist philosophy · Feminist theory · Literature · Politics · Postmodernism · Psychoanalysis · Representation (politics · Silence · Sociology · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Psychology · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy
Alice Doesn’t
Portrait of Dora
Flogging a Dead Language
The Madwoman and Her Languages
A thousand plateaus
French Feminism Is a Universalism
The Subversive Power of Sexual Difference in The Work of Kathy Acker
"Introduction to Luce Irigaray's "When Our Lips Speak Together
Luce Irigaray's 'Contradictions
On the 'Universality' of Madness
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2021 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |