Risking Catachresis: Reading Race, Reference, and Grammar in “Women”

IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM
Christina A. León
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Abstract:This essay reconsiders the deconstructive claim that political terms, and specifically the term woman, are catachrestic. By tracing genealogies of rhetoric in deconstruction and grammar and representation in Black feminisms, I show how racial categories overdetermine reference. In order to address this vis-à-vis feminist theories that employ deconstructive, poststructural, transnational, or critical Black analytics, I trace conversations around catachresis and how these theoretical insights might afford a rhetorical concept that has no literal referent but emerges from lack and need. Thinking in this tension that better attends to the material conditions of those considered as referent, the risk of catachresis offers one possible way to think at the limit of the term woman with an attention to ethics in theory.
冒着重蹈覆辙的风险:《女人》中的阅读种族、参考和语法
摘要:这篇文章重新考虑了解构性的说法,即政治术语,特别是女性术语,是灾难性的。通过追溯解构中的修辞谱系、黑人女性主义中的语法和表现,我展示了种族类别是如何过度确定参照的。为了解决这种与女权主义理论的对比,这些理论采用了解构、后结构、跨国或批判性的黑人分析,我追踪了围绕catachresis的对话,以及这些理论见解如何提供一个没有字面参照但因缺乏和需要而产生的修辞概念。在这种更关注被视为参照物的人的物质条件的紧张关系中思考,卡塔克里斯的风险提供了一种可能的方式,可以在理论上关注伦理,在女性这个词的极限下思考。
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