Keywords
women’s experimental writing
non/narrative
hybridity
cyborg writing
How to Cite
Abstract
The essay discusses theoretical practices of three major American
experimental women writers associated with L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets Lyn
Hejinian, Leslie Scalapino, and Carla Harryman, who played a crucial role in shaping
the present-day critical and theoretical literary debate regarding the status of formally
radical literature engaged in questions of feminist epistemology and written by
women. Devoted to language and its ideological dimension, their work is based on
a wager that poetic practice is a socially engaged strategy of intervention (Harryman),
and as such functions as a language-oriented feminist epistemology. Hejinian,
Scalapino, and Harryman created a significant literary and theoretical body of work
that includes complex genre-bending hybrid texts deeply rooted in contemporary
feminist discourses and preoccupied with such issues as production of knowledge,
meaning, identity, gender, and sexuality, hidden ideological mechanisms
of the conventional narrative, and the imperative of its constant refiguration.
The article is also an attempt to see their work in a broader context of feminist
thought, ranging from écriture féminine, through Judith Butler’s and Denise Riley’s
critiques of identity politics, to the posthumanist horizon of Donna Haraway’s
cyborg writing.
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