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Monique Wittig and the Allegory of the Possible in Across the Acheron M. M. Adjarian Monique Wittig’s fi ctional and theoretical writings— indeed, the very words she uses to express her creative and intellectual vision— are infused with an intense passion for women and their social, sexual, economic, and political liberation. A celebrated member of a French feminist movement that gave rise to work described as “poetic, utopian, hyperbolic [and] declamatory,” Wittig produced a small, but powerful oeuvre that demonstrated all of these charac- teristics, sometimes simultaneously. Yet many of Wittig’s American feminist heirs and commentators, chief among them theorist Judith Butler, have di- minished the complexity of her work. In so doing, they have misrepresented Wittig and diverted attention away from the importance of Wittig’s writings to Anglo American feminist thought and its continuing evolution. Th is be- comes especially apparent when examining her theoretical work in context of the historical matrix from which it emerged alongside her post- 1968 fi ctions, and in particular her 1985 novel, Across the Acheron. “Lesbians Are Not Women”: The Return of Lesbian Materialism Key to understanding the reductionism to which Wittig’s work has been sub- jected is her infamous 1978 claim,
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies – University of Nebraska Press
Published: Oct 23, 2018
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