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- Title
Embodiment of the Female from the Viewpoint of Cixous's L'ecriture Feminine in Sylvia Plath's Poetry - A Study.
- Authors
Nodeh, Soghre
- Abstract
Lacan's phallogocentric structure of language challenges the function of language as a neutral mirror of objective reality and rather refers to the privileging of masculine in construction of meaning throughout the patriarchal history which allowed no place for feminine writing. Thus, opposing phallogocentric discourse, poststructuralist feminists exhort to what Cixous terms as "écriture feminine" as the inscription of female body and female difference in language and text. Accordingly, viewing women's sexual difference as a source rather than a point of inferiority to men, Sylvia Plath rediscovers female experiences in her poems through using "écriture feminine" and thus exhibits the productivity of women's language. Hence, looking from the perspective of Cixous's "écriture feminine,"the current study aims at analyzing the female modes of writing in Plath's poems. The main finding of the research is that, through using genuine female forms of expression, Plath brings into being the symbolic weight of female consciousness, illustrating the oppressive forces that obstruct female expression.
- Subjects
LADY Lazarus (Poem : Plath); MORNING Song (Poem : Plath); PLATH, Sylvia, 1932-1963
- Publication
Indian Review of World Literature in English, 2016, Vol 12, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0974-097X
- Publication type
Poetry Review