Vol.1, No 4, 1997 pp. 249 - 266
UDC:820(73).09-1:396

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GENDER AND DIFFERENCE IN THE POETRY OF ADRIENNE RICH
Lena Petrović
Faculty of Philosophy, Niš, Yugoslavia

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Abstract. The paper is concerned with the way the poetry of Adrienne Rich effects an indirect reconciliation between the seemingly incompatible positions of the Anglo-American and French feminisms in respect to the issues of gender and difference. The poetic development of Adrienne Rich is presented as a movement from a male-oriented to woman-centred kind of writing and finally to a decentred vision that goes beyond gender and difference. By its power to rearouse forbidden desire Rich's poetry disrupts the system of linguistic and existential binary oppositions and to Freudian and Lacanian notions of subjectvity, constituted on absence, loss or separation, opposes the self in whom the body is made fully present to the mind, the memory of the lost mother recovered and being and thinking re-connected.

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ROD I RAZLIKE U POEZIJI ADRIJANE RIČ Autor ukazuje na način na koji se poezija Adrijane Rič može čitati kao posredno pomirenje naizgled nepomirljivih shvatanja anglo-američkih i francuskih feminista o pitanjima seksualnost i razlike. Pesnički razvoj Adrijane Rič prikazan je kao kretanje kroz nekoliko faza: od imitacije tradicionalnog muškog pisma, do perioda revolta i traganja za autentičnim ženskim izrazom i konačno do vizije ucelovljenja koja nadrasta patrijarhalno shvaćene pojmove seksualne polarnosti i razlike. Svojom sposobnošću da probudi zabranjenu želju, poezija Adrijane Rič podriva nasilnu hijerarhiju unutar jezičkih i egzistencijalnih binarnih suprotnosti i Frojdovom i Lakanovom shvatanju identiteta, zasnovanom na odsustvu, gubitku ili razdvajanju, suprotstavlja koncepciju ucelovljenog jastva, u kojoj je obnovljeno sećanje na pre-edipalnu majku, telo prisutno i dostupno umu, a biće i mišljenje sjedinjeni jedinstvenom stvaralačkom energijom.