4 quotes
Writing as an inconsequential process of sameness/otherness is ceaselessly re-breaking and re-weaving patterns of ready-mades. The written bears the written to infinity.
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (1989)
To write is to become. Not to become a writer (or a poet), but to become, intransitively. Not when writing adopts established keynotes or policy, but when it traces for itself lines of evasion.
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (1989)
Writing, for the majority of us who call ourselves writers, still consists of “expressing” the exalted emotions related to the act of creating and either appropriating language to ourselves or ascribing it to a subject who is more or less a reflection of ourselves.
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (1989)
Writing, in a way, is listening to the others’ language and reading with the others’ eyes. The more ears I am able to hear with, the farther I see the plurality of meaning and the less I lend myself to the illusion of a single message.
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (1989)