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Spotkania intertekstualne. O dialogu Hélène Cixous z Jacques’em Derridą

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Kopka A.

Przestrzenie Teorii

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2014

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issue 22

207-219

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Where else, if not “in a text”, can two bright minds, or two writers, meet? Is it possible for two intellectuals who engage in a dialogue to understand each other without appropriation, i.e. without constantly borrowing from each other and commenting on each other’s ideas? This essay is an attempt at answering these questions by using the unique relation between Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida as an example. The friendship between these two is based on efforts to understand each other’s thoughts and writings – but all this is not without respect for each other’s singularity, sovereignty and intimacy.

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Poezja otwartych ran. Stygmateksty Teresy Ferenc

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Szopa K.

ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura

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2023

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issue 46

185-206

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The article is an attempt at reading the poetry of Teresa Ferenc through the prism of feminist politics of mourning. Using Hélène Cixous’s neologism “stigmatext,” I argue that the figure of an “open wound” constitutes Ferenc’s poetic imagination. This figure refers not only to the tragic event of pacification of Sochy – Ferenc’s family village – but also to the specifically understood relation with mother as is conceived in our culture. Motherhood functions here as a synecdoche of stigmatized otherness. From this point of view, poetry of open wounds emerges as an integral element of Ferenc’s ethical program, which is opposed to the phallogocentric logic of war, death, and destruction.

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Niniejszy artykuł stanowi propozycję odczytania poezji Teresy Ferenc przez pryzmat feministycznej polityki żałoby. Posługując się pojęciem „stygmatekstu”, ukutym przez Hélène Cixous, wskazuję, że w centrum wyobraźni twórczej poetki znajduje się otwarta rana. Figura ta odsyła ona nie tylko do tragedii, jaką była pacyfikacja Soch, rodzinnej wsi poetki, ale też do szczególnie rozumianej, ponadjednostkowej więzi z matką. Matczyność funkcjonuje bowiem u Ferenc jako synekdocha stygmatyzowanej inności. Poezja otwartych ran staje się zatem nieodzownym elementem programu etycznego Ferenc, wymierzonego w fallogocentryczną logikę wojny, śmierci i zniszczenia.

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Hélène Cixous’s „The Exile of James Joyce”: A Biographical Limit Case

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Karpinski E. C.

Anglica Wratislaviensia

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2017

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issue 55

35-45

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This article examines Hélène Cixous’s biographical monograph The Exile of James Joyce as a limit case of biographical praxis. Joyce’s biography is read in the context of Cixous’s own evolving personal motif of exile, revealing her autobiographical investment in becoming a writer through reading Joyce. She pushes the boundaries of the biographical genre at the intersections of autobiography, literary criticism, and biography, defying simple generic classifications and exposing the limits of conventional demarcations between the artist, the work, the biographer, and the critic. As a result, the text becomes a creative-interpretive hybrid project, where the biographical code has been displaced by focus on epistemological, psychological, and textual problems implicit in the relationship between the biographer and the biographical subject. Her approach invites us to consider the following questions: How does she rewrite Joyce through her own multiple experiences of exile that she also shares with Jacques Derrida? What difference does gender make in the construction of the biographical subject as the great modernist “genius”? How does gender marginalization impact her authority as a biographer? The discussion is also framed through some larger questions concerning the aesthetic, epistemological, ethical, and political role of biography in approaching modernist literature and culture: Is biography an art or a craft? What kind of knowledge does biography generate? How far is biography a form of discursive violence and voyeurism? How can attention to affect and intimacy offer new insights into the aesthetics of the biographical genre?

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Spotkania intertekstualne. O dialogu Hélène Cixous z Jacques’em Derridą

Poezja otwartych ran. Stygmateksty Teresy Ferenc

Hélène Cixous’s „The Exile of James Joyce”: A Biographical Limit Case