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- Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
- ISBN: 0226167569
- WAPI (Tower ID): 100954360
- Release Date: March 1, 1997
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "Sappho Is Burning" by Page Dubois to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Sappho Is Burning"Browse more products related to "Page Dubois"Review"Dubois is acutely alive to the aesthetic resonance of Sappho's poetry, but also stresses the need for historical perspective and a sense of the difficulties of reading her work, which cannot be easily accommodated either by masculine history of sexuality, or by contemporary constructions of lesbian sexuality." "In a sequence of ingenious and subtle readings, duBois reveals how Sappho represents the feminine that philosophy silences. She shows, further, that contemporary scholarship reproduces the political semiotics of classical Greek discourse in this respect. She couples a keenly insightful analysis of how scholarship misreads the fragmentary with her own original reading of Sappho's poetry. In each of these readings, duBois describes the process by which Sappho became the Other of later masculinist philosophy, history, physical discipline, or national rhetoric, precisely because she offered such clear aesthetic, philosophical, and ideological alternatives to the Eurocentric notions that Western humanism has so long revered." Publisher's noteTo know all we know about Sappho is to know little. Her poetry, dating from the seventh century B.C.E., comes to us in fragments, her biography as speculation. How is it then, Page duBois asks, that this poet has come to signify so much? Sappho Is Burning offers a new reading of this archaic Lesbian poet that acknowledges the poet's distance and difference from us. It stresses Sappho's inassimilability into our narratives about the Greeks, literary history, philosophy, the history of sexuality, the psychoanalytic subject. In Sappho Is Burning, duBois reads Sappho as a disruptive figure at the very origin of our story of Western civilization. Sappho is beyond contemporary categories, inhabiting a space outside of reductively linear accounts of a common history. She is a woman, but also an aristocrat; a Greek, but one turned toward Asia; a poet who writes as a philosopher before philosophy; a writer who speaks of sexuality that can be identified neither with Michel Foucault's account of Greek sexuality nor with many versions of contemporary lesbian sexuality. She is named the tenth muse, yet the nine books of her poetry survive only in fragments. She disorients, troubles, undoes many certitudes in the history of poetry, the history of philosophy, the history of sexuality. DuBois argues that we need to read Sappho again. AnnotationA new reading of the sixth-century B. C. lesbian poet that acknowledges the poet's distance and difference from us and stresses Sappho's inassimilability into our narratives about the Greeks, literary history, philosophy, the history of sexuality, and the psychoanalytic subject. If You Enjoy "Sappho Is Burning (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Sappho Is Burning (Paperback)" by Page Dubois (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Gay & Lesbian Bestsellers
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