Productive Dilemmas in Sphere Three

Hello, everyone.

It seems we have a number of productive dilemmas to consider throughout the third sphere just based on today's class discussion (and we haven't even covered the "trope"!). Here are some of the questions I carry with me into next class:

1. If Campbell's feminist rhetor does not define herself exclusively according to what women are or are not (or according to how women should or should not act), then how else can she self-define?
2. How do we construct a feminist literary subjectivity based on something other than time, or based on something other than how women relate themselves to historical events or as historical subjects? (This is the question underlying Kristeva's "atemporal subjectivity," a term we see her discuss alongside "logic of identification.")

And I'll add some bonus questions for you to think about as you anticipate Thursday's quiz on tropes in Wheatley and Grimke:

1. As we read throughout this sphere, how will this concept of "feminine style" rely on, look past, or disrupt the trope?
2. Can race be a trope?
3. Can gender be a trope?
4. (For that matter, can moral superiority be a trope?)
   

As you can see, I'll be readily armed with questions!

See you Thursday,
Professor Graban