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Article: 'Foe's' Defoe and la jeune nee: establishing a metaphorical referent for the elided female voice. (J.M. Coetzee's novel)
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- CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
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- January 1, 1994
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What can be said about a feminine sexuality "other" than the one prescribed in, and by. phallocratism? How can its language be recovered, or invented?
LUCE IRIGARAY
J .M. Coetzee's Foe is a radical rethinking of Daniel Defoe's desert island myth, a postmodern re-vision of Defoe's sexual dynamics, and a reply, if only a struggling metonym of an answer, to Luce Irigaray's important question. The essential difficulty in any such attempt itself suggests and validates the struggle, which is, of course, the inherent difficulty in speaking of (and of speaking in) a language that has not been allowed to exist, describing a continent that has not been explored, ...
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