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This book examines the relations among nostalgia, gender, and foundational philosophies through a critique of the lost mother as a ground for thinking about sexual difference. More specifically, the author critiques the nostalgic tendencies of feminist theory, arguing that an emancipatory system of thought must move beyond a maternally oriented structure. Through close readings of works by Maurice Blanchot, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, and Nicole Brossard, the book elucidates the many dimensions of nostalgic paradigms literary, psychoanalytic, epistemological, ontological, and sociopolitical. This critique ultimately confronts postmodernism, and especially the burgeoning field of performative theory, as an intellectual paradigm that claims to subvert systems of meaning. Analyzing the writings of J. L. Austin, Judith Butler, and Irigaray, the author argues that despite its antinostalgic structure, performative theory provides an inadequate model for understanding the connections among language, identity, and the social bonds that constitute the ethical and political sphere.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary theory

• Full title: Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures
• Author: Lynne Huffer
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 212
• EAN: 9780804730259
• ISBN: 0804730253
• ID: 04716656
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 381 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 127 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. May 1998

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