Alison,
if you follow the postings on this thread, you'll see my remarks
about "feminists, post-structuralists" were a direct response to Simon
Hewitt's comments on same. No, I wouldn't limit insights into the power
of ideological formations in language only to them.
I'm not an expert on Beckett, but I would essay to describe his work as
variations on the pathos & comedy found in the failures of language and
meaning, stretching same to the extremes of absurdity, suffering. In
order to present that he needed to create dramatizations,
representations.
It seems a different place and approach from the confident theorizing
which presents all reasoned discourse as a form of oppression, and a
poetics which justifies itself in these terms. It's hard to talk about
these issues; I'm not sure Beckett is relevant to the controversy which
motivated this thread (unless the back-&-forth itself starts to sound like
a beckett play).
I'm off now - won;t be able to respond again until Aug. 20th.
Henry
Henry
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