Lesley Hall wrote:
>[M]y distinct impression that she was not a feminist and was not
>writing from this perspective, a feeling reinforced by press interviews in
>which she claimed that she was 'really' a gay man (though I believe she has
>since married, something gay men are not yet generally permitted to do...). I
>suppose she could claim to be writing from a 'queer'/transgressive
>perspective? But I think this differs somewhat from feminism.
Does a "queer" perspective really differ from a feminist one? I think Eve
Sedgwick and Judith Butler might say no, since their theoretical work tends
to cross through both those perspectivs. Poppy Z. Brite's novels may not
be feminist per se, but could we, following Cixous, call her work *ecriture
feminine*? Could it be not so much the content of what she writes as the
way she writes that would make her a feminist writer? This is of course
more in the French tradition of feminist writing which goes against
American practicality. American feminist writers tend to be very
interested in the politics of content. French feminist writers are more
interested in the politics of form. That may be oversimplifying the
difference though.
Erik
Erik Tsao
Graduate Student
Department of English
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI
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