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Article: Speaking "Chrissandra": Christa Wolf, Bakhtin, and the Politics of the Polyvocal Text.(Mikhail Bakhtin)(Critical Essay)
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- October 1, 2001
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I claim that every woman in this century and in our culture sphere who has ventured into male-dominated institutions--"literature" and "aesthetics" are such institutions--must have experienced the desire for self-destruction.
Christa Wolf, Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays
Ich behaupte, da[ss] jede Frau, die sich in diesem Jahrhundert und in unserem Kulturkreis in die vom mannlichen Selbstverstandnis gepragten Institutionen gewagt hat--[less than][less than]die Literatur[greater than][greater than], [less than][less than]die Asthetik[greater than][greater than] sind solche Institutionen--den Selbstvernichtungswunsch kennenlernen mu[ss]te.
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