Critical Poetics of Feminist Refusals

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.

Autorentext

Federica Bueti is writer, editor, independent scholar and is a Writing Tutor of the MFA at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, NL.

Inhalt

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note

Crossing Paths of Feminist Refusals

1. Autonomy and the Quotidian Revolt in the Writings of Carla Lonzi and Audre Lorde 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

   ---

2. To Steal, to Fly Away Improperly. "Feminine" Lines of Flights and Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity 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"

   ---

3. Minor Endings 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