From Philosopher's Wife to Feminist Autotheorist: Performing Phallic Mimesis as Parody in Chris Kraus's I Love Dick

ESC: English Studies in Canada Pub Date : 2022-01-07 DOI:10.1353/esc.2019.0016

Lauren Fournier

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Chris Kraus’s I Love Dick (1997) is a polarizing, genre-blurring book of contemporary feminist literature that continues to perplex and thrill readers with its weird modes of articulation. Brassily sharp yet self-consciously complicit in her critiques of theory and the art world, the protagonist Chris Kraus is a barely-fictionalized version of the author who writes through the end of her marriage to her then-husband Sylvère Lotringer— the French-American cultural critic and founding editor of Semiotext(e) press. The plot of I Love Dick centres around Kraus’s obsession with a man named Dick, a British writer and theorist whom she meets in the opening pages through Lotringer, but the book is not so much driven by plot as it is by political and discursive issues related to contemporary theory, art, writing, and feminism. Over the course of the book, Kraus pens self-reflexive letters to Dick (who she names her “ideal reader” [Dick 130]) about her coming-of-age as a woman and aspiring artist in an academic art scene From Philosopher’s Wife to Feminist Autotheorist: Performing Phallic Mimesis as Parody in Chris Kraus’s I Love Dick

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从哲学家的妻子到女权主义者的自我理论家:在克里斯·克劳斯的《我爱迪克》中表演生殖器模仿

克里斯·克劳斯(Chris Kraus)的《我爱迪克》(I Love Dick, 1997)是一本两极分化、体体化模糊的当代女权主义文学作品，其怪异的表达方式继续让读者感到困惑和兴奋。在她对理论和艺术世界的批评中，主人公克里斯·克劳斯(Chris Kraus)犀利而又自觉地参与其中，几乎是作者的虚构版本，她一直在写作，直到她与当时的丈夫、法裔美国文化评论家、Semiotext(e)出版社的创始编辑西尔弗尔·洛特林格(sylv re Lotringer)的婚姻结束。《我爱迪克》的情节围绕着克劳斯对一个名叫迪克的男人的痴迷展开，迪克是一位英国作家和理论家，她在开篇通过洛特林格认识了他，但这本书与其说是由情节驱动，不如说是由与当代理论、艺术、写作和女权主义有关的政治和话语问题驱动。在这本书的过程中，克劳斯给迪克(她称之为“理想读者”[Dick 130])写了几封自我反思的信，讲述了她作为一个女性和有抱负的艺术家在学术艺术界的成长历程，从哲学家的妻子到女权主义者的自我理论家:在克里斯·克劳斯的《我爱迪克》中以模仿的方式表演生殖器模仿

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