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Some 25 years ago, Hélène Cixous provocatively anticipated a distinctly female practice of writing. She declared that écriture féminine would be marked by characteristics which challenge the logic of writing within the "phallocentric" tradition, by its focus on the female body, glorying in a femininity too long repressed, and breaking up received truth through laughter. Her argument, based on her view of the poetic, implies a form of "false consciousness" in that not all women would, or even could, produce texts from this alternative practice. Further, she declared that écriture féminine cannot be defined or identified outside of itself: It is unfortunate that so important a declaration would be auto-marginalized by positing its own epistemological and social indefinability. While Cixous may be right, that a practice of women's writing would be hard to identify, she carries her attack of "phallocentric systems" of knowledge -- rationality and logic -- to such an extreme that any attemp

Écriture féminine : Searching for an Indefinable Practice? Mark Olsen ARTFL Project University of Chicago mark@barkov.uchicago.edu Some 25 years ago, Hélène Cixous provocatively anticipated a distinctly female practice of writing. She declared that écriture féminine would be marked by characteristics which challenge the logic of writing within the "phallocentric" tradition, by its focus on the female body, glorying in a femininity too long repressed, and breaking up received truth through laughter. Her argument, based on her view of the poetic, implies

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