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Poetic Politics: How the Amazons Took the Acropolis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Jeffner Allen
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Abstract

This paper explores the poetic politics of lesbian and feminist writing, the textual violence that writing exercises and the amazon intertext it creates. In this particular essay, Jeffner Alien takes as her point of departure the writing of Hélène Cixous and Monique Wittig.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , Summer 1988 , pp. 107 - 122
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Copyright © 1988 by Hypatia, Inc.

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