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Mourning and Metonymy: Bearing Witness Between Women and Generations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Sara Murphy
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Abstract

Drucilla Cornell's Legacies of Dignity: Between Women and Generations proposes a feminist ethics of self-representation that asks what exclusions are necessary to autobiography's constructions of identity. Focusing on the ways in which alterity, particularly linked with figures of the mother, are silenced, it advances a mourning that is transformational. I question Cornell's use of a Kantian concept of dignity and suggest that Irigaray's engagement with Levinas offers another way of conceptualizing the problematic.

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Hypatia , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , Fall 2004 , pp. 144 - 168
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Copyright © 2004 by Hypatia, Inc.

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