Thursday, February 11, 2010

écriture féminine

Cisneros's style is a perfect example of écriture féminine, as it does not follow, as Tyson puts it, "correct methods of organization", like ridged sequential patterns and is built up much more of emotions and the psychological rather than the logical. Each section of the story is written this way, For example, in Four Skinny Trees, we read:
"
Keep, keep, keep trees say when I sleep. They teach."

Taken out of context, the sentences are very confusing and lack proper structure. But as we read throughout the stories, these broken sentences flow very fluidly together like our own stream of conciseness. The most striking example to me was the story The Family of Little Feet that begins by describing this family by their feet, and in the next paragraph is talking about about shoes. But again, it is easy to read as this is the way our minds naturally jump from subject to subject.

I would argue that in many ways, Cixous's idea of
écriture féminine is the most natural way, and thus perhaps the most correct way to write and read literature.

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