reverberations: across the shimmering CASCADAS (Feminist Philosophy) - Softcover

Allen, Jeffner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791418987 ISBN 13: 9780791418987

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1994

Synopsis

This is a groundbreaking work of poetry, autobiography, lesbian studies, multicultural writing, feminist philosophy, and postmodernism. Jeffner Allen achieves a crossing of borders and complex worlds often heralded in feminist theory but rarely attempted

These abundance writings are intimate chattings that celebrate collisions transitions unexpected that welcome fluidity a breathing that traverse deaths and lives How to love where there may be nothing in common or this today and (not) that tomorrow?

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About the Author

Jeffner Allen is the author of Lesbian Philosophy: Explorations; editor of Lesbian Philosophies and Cultures, published by SUNY Press; and co-editor of The Thinking Muse: Feminism and Recent French Thought. She is Professor of Philosophy at State University of New York at Binghamton.

From the Back Cover

This is groundbreaking work or poetry, autobiography, lesbian studies, multicultural writing, feminist philosophy, and post modernism. Jeffner Allen achieves a crossing of borders and complex worlds often heralded in feminist theory but rarely attempted.

Reviews

``I circulate among languages, none of them my own, and when I write I am told, `not philosophy,' `poetry,' `. . . using language as it was not intended,' '' Allen ( Lesbian Philosophy: Explorations ) says. It's easy to understand the categorical confusion: few writers can mix poetry and philosophy with grace. Carrying lesbian feminism to the point of exhibitionism, she uses language as an investigation into self and other, searching for that point where two become one. But words don't seem to be her forte, as can be gleaned from the following: ``youyoush eiiheri iher sheyo ui.'' Other passages use cliches, such as ``herstory'' and variant spellings of women: wimmin, wimin, wimyn. Many passages contain Spanish words for no apparent reason except the unnamed lover or friend of the speaker is Spanish. Philosophy seems equally simplistic; the poet asks if readers have ``lived a great love?'' and refers to happenstance meetings as guided by astrological signs. Welcome exceptions are the few instances where philosophy fades (descriptions of girls building sandcastles or the final sequence remembering a friend's violent death); here imagery of the moment takes over, and the result is gracefully poetic.

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Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791418987
• ISBN 13: 9780791418987
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204