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THINKING WITTIG'S DIFFERENCES: "Or, Failing That, Invent"

THINKING WITTIG'S DIFFERENCES: "Or, Failing That, Invent" Thinking “Or, failing That, invent” Alice Jardine The loss of Monique Wittig’s live voice and future texts in January 2003 made me deeply sad, especially so for those closest to her, who loved her. My own sadness has taken the form of a profound political, intellectual, historical, and literary melancholia. Wittig’s impact on literature, feminism, philosophy, lesbian and queer theory, and more has been extensive and inimitable. Wittig was a thinker and poet whom I admired, and also a colleague and a famous person whom I happened to know. She was on the periphery of my private life, but at the heart of my poetic one. Wittig’s voice, particularly her poetic voice, has always been a vital part of my thinking and my conversations about feminism, universality, foundationalism, and psychoanalysis; about heterocentrism, queer theory, and postcolonial and antiracist thinking; indeed, about the possibility of political alliances across all of these often conflicted discursive fields. But Wittig and I rarely encountered each other directly. Hardly ever. Except once upon a time . . . In what follows I take the risk of “anecdotal theory” to explore three encounters with Monique Wittig and her work.1 I will not talk about http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies Duke University Press

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Duke University Press
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© 2007 by Duke University Press
ISSN
1064-2684
eISSN
1064-2684
DOI
10.1215/10642684-2007-002
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Abstract

Thinking “Or, failing That, invent” Alice Jardine The loss of Monique Wittig’s live voice and future texts in January 2003 made me deeply sad, especially so for those closest to her, who loved her. My own sadness has taken the form of a profound political, intellectual, historical, and literary melancholia. Wittig’s impact on literature, feminism, philosophy, lesbian and queer theory, and more has been extensive and inimitable. Wittig was a thinker and poet whom I admired, and also a colleague and a famous person whom I happened to know. She was on the periphery of my private life, but at the heart of my poetic one. Wittig’s voice, particularly her poetic voice, has always been a vital part of my thinking and my conversations about feminism, universality, foundationalism, and psychoanalysis; about heterocentrism, queer theory, and postcolonial and antiracist thinking; indeed, about the possibility of political alliances across all of these often conflicted discursive fields. But Wittig and I rarely encountered each other directly. Hardly ever. Except once upon a time . . . In what follows I take the risk of “anecdotal theory” to explore three encounters with Monique Wittig and her work.1 I will not talk about

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GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay StudiesDuke University Press

Published: Jan 1, 2007

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