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Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture by Franc;Oise Lionnet CR!..aling WOMEN Writing a series edited by Shari Benstock and Celeste Schenck Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture by Franc;oise Lionnet Autobiographical VOICES Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture Fran�oise Lionnet Corn ell University Press ITHACA and LONDON Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities/ Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program. Copyright © 1989 by Cornell University All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850, or visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu. First published 1989 by Cornell University Press Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lionnet, Françoise. Autobiographical voices. (Reading women writing) Includes index. 1. Autobiography—Women authors—History and criticism. 2. Women— Biography—History and criticism. 3. Literature, Modern—History and criticism. I. Title. II. Series. PN471.L56 1989 809'.93592 88-43236 ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-2091-7 (cloth) — ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-9927-2 (pbk.) The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Cover illustration: Drawing by Desne Crossley Murdoch. Courtesy of the artist. In memoria m J. L. L. In posterum J. & D. Foreword As the editors of Reading Women Writing, we are committed to furthering international feminist debate. To that end, we seek books that rigorously explore how differences of class, race, ethnic back­ ground, nationality, religious preference, and sexual choice inform women's writing. Books sensitive to the ways women's writings are classified, evaluated, read, and taught are central to the series. Dedi­ cated primarily although not exclusively to the examination of litera­ ture written by women, Reading Women Writing highlights differing, even contradictory, theoretical positions on texts read in cultural context. Of particular interest to us are feminist criticism of non­ canonical texts (including film, popular culture, and new and as yet unnamed genres); confrontations of first-world theory with beyond­ the-first-world texts; and books on colonial and postcolonial writing that generate their own theoretical positions. Among volumes in prospect for the series are a book on women's prison narratives in international context, a study of incest and the writing daughter in Jean Rhys and H.D., and a reading of popular film, sexual differ­ ence, and spectatorship in an emphatically social context. Fran<;oise Lionnet's Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Por­ traiture, the inaugural volume of Reading Women Writing, is compara­ tive, theoretical, and political; it is also formally innovative. Lionnet groups Afro-American, Caribbean, and Indian Ocean texts without effacing their differences; by means of comparative analysis, she expands the theoretical boundaries of women's autobiography. In her nonlinear, inter-referential readings of these texts, she avoids viil Fore�ord hypostasizing either "black �omen's autobiography" or "Indian Ocean �omen's autobiography."Then, too, by invoking Augustine and Nietzsche, not as models of masculine autobiography to �hich she �l set contrasting female examples, but for the feminine in them, she reads through and against these male texts: both to sho� �omen �riters' indebtedness to an autobiographical tradition and to imagine that tradition retroactively in the light of �omen's texts. The concept of metissage, exuberantly elaborated in Lionnet's text, propels Autobiographical Voices at every level. The inseparable aes­ thetic and political functions of metissage link the five �omen au­ thors discussed-Hurston, Angelou, Cardinal, Conde, Humbert­ and join the �hole comparative reading to the political stance Lion­ net takes, appropriating the Da�inian notion of strength in diver­ sity. Metissage is also the basis for Lionnet's positioning of herself as a reader/subject; she is herself a metisse, born in Mauritius, educated in France, no� living and teaching in America. Finally, metissage functions as a strategy for approaching her book: a reader may pur­ sue any number of paths through the text, considering out of se­ quence, for example, the chapters on Augustine, Angelou and Humbert. The reader thereby participates in the book's production by making a commitment-political, as Lionnet �ould have it-to bricolage, reading, as it �ere, as a metisseuse. The very form of Autobiographical Voices is necessarily hybrid. It dares scholarly con­ vention to be adequate to its diversity of critical moves. With Auto­ biographical Voices by Fran�oise Lionnet, Reading Women Writing proudly commences publication. s. B. C. s. Contents Preface xi Introduction: The Politics and Aesthetics of Metissage 1 Part I Rereading the Past 31 1. Augustine's Confessions: Poetics of Harmony, or the Ideal Reader in the Text 35 2. Silence and Circularity in Eeee Homo: "Und so erzahle ich mir mein Leben" 67 Part 11 Creating a Tradition 91 3· Autoethnography: The An-Archic Style of Dust Tracks on a Road 97 4· Con Artists and Storytellers: Maya Angelou's Problematic Sense of Audience 130 5· Happiness Deferred: Maryse Conde's Heremakhonon and the Failure of Enunciation 167 6. Privileged Difference and the Possibility of Emancipation: The Words to Say It and A ['autre bout de moi 191 7· Anamnesis and Utopia: Self-Portrait of the Web Maker in A ['autre bout de moi 216 Conclusion 245 Index 249 Language is no longer linked to the knowing of things, but to human freedom. Michel Foucault, The Order of Things Preface We women are so diverse and live in such varied cultural, racial, and economic circumstances that we cannot possibly pretend to speak in a single voice. It is by listening to a plurality of voices from various corners of the planet and across centuries that we will strengthen our ability to resist demeaning power structures without risk of being recuperated by current or trendy professionalism with­ in our academic disciplines. Women's voices do not and will never constitute a "minority discourse. "Our voices have existed in a state of greater or lesser tension with other points of view in all historical eras and geographical areas. Always present everywhere but rarely heard, let alone recorded, women's voices have not been a domi­ nant mode of expression or a legitimate and acceptable alternative to such dominant modes. The very inaudibility of these dissenting voices within accepted patterns of traditional and/or oppositional practices is a clear indictment of the processes through which such imperialist patterns have been constituted. Our voices have always been there, but it is only recently that academic and political institu­ tions have begun to take them seriously. This book was written from the deep conviction that it is the fore grounding of our differences as women which can ultimately unite us as a powerful force of resis­ tance against all repressive systems of ideology. By focusing on the autobiographical fictions of some women writ­ ers from different-yet similar-cultural contexts (e. g., Afro-Ameri­ can, Caribbean, and Mauritian), I hope to echo some of the most innovative aspects of this global literature, especially its revision of xii Preface canonical texts such as Augustine's and Nietzsche's and its growing interest in highlighting alternative patterns of resistance to cultural and political hegemony. These women writers articulate a vision of the future founded on individual and collective solidarities, respect­ ful of cultural specificities, and opposed to all rigid, essentializing approaches to questions of race, class, or gender. Because of the subtle and nonexclusionary nature of their project, the writers have often been browbeaten by male writers and critics, who have ac­ cused them of not being sufficiently "political. "I hope my analyses will help to counter such simplistic approaches to their works and will encourage critics to look at that body of writing in a different light. It is indeed deeply disturbing to me, as a woman and as a critic, that writers as intelligent and talented as Zora Neale Hurston, Maryse Conde, and Marie-Therese Humbert have been viewed by compatriots-such as Richard Wright, Oruno Lara, and Edouard Maunick-as unenlightened, apolitical, and at best slightly embar­ rassing sisters because the confessional nature of some of their nar­ ratives does not offer ready-made solutions to the problems of rac­ ism in their respective countries. Perhaps as a result of such thorough misunderstanding and its disheartening consequences for the creative person, Maryse Conde and Marie-Therese Humbert stopped writing about their own islands: Conde's recent successes have been historical novels set in a very distant past, and Humbert's second book was about an imaginary island in the Atlantic. Hurston's fate is well known and need not be rehearsed here: such forms of self-censorship bespeak the coercive nature of narrowly construed "political"interpretations of the works I discuss. By focus­ ing on the language and structure of these works-narrative strat­ egies, rhetorical patterns, and discursive configurations-I hope to elucidate the subtlety of the writers' vision and to stress their unfail­ ing commitment to a process of emancipation that can redefine the nature and boundaries of the political. Many friends have been there for me from the inception of this project. Ross Chambers believed in it from the start, and my intellec­ tual debt to him is vast and long-standing. His approach to narrative and his seminars at the University of Michigan provided the meth­ odological tools that became indispensable to my analyses. John McCumber, with his philosophical acumen and good linguistic Preface xiii sense, has always been my best interlocutor. Eva Boesenberg, Sarah Kofman, Adlai Murdoch, Jonathan Ngate, Ronnie Scharfman, and Louise Yelin read and discussed different chapters of the manu­ script.
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