Her odyssey, herstory in Michèle Roberts's fair exchange

Sarah Falcus

doi:10.1080/00111610309599949

Her odyssey, herstory in Michèle Roberts's fair exchange

Sarah Falcus

University of Aberdeen

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Lost, nostalgic, man entrusts to woman his memory; he makes woman the keeper of his house, his sex (organ), his history. […]

Scarcely does she know herself, scarcely does she begin to glimpse nostalgia for herself—her odyssey. (Irigaray Ethics 71)

Women's time and the political implications for feminism of feminist historiography have spawned a wealth of writing in recent years. Accepting that linear time and history are inescapably patriarchal and work to exclude them has led women to attempt to rewrite history to provide the perspective that men deny. However, this rerecording and remaking of history is fraught with danger, as Linda Anderson argues

The “reclaiming of history,” the discovery of how our foremothers preceded and even anticipated us, can help to assure us that, despite the evidence, we do in fact exist in the world; yet if we ignore how that existence is textually mediated we end up simply reconstituting “reality” as it is. (134)

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	237-250
Journal	Critique - Studies in Contemporary Fiction
Volume	44
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00111610309599949
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2003

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