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from Tetling Wsyr; cuts acIEFs
the notion that biography
is a
well-ordered factual narrative
eentred.*bott:a iingte, recognisabte
person.
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comegns alternqtely
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with writers getting
drunk, one night,
on a
plane
and so on. These locations
matter only as mucn as the
gaps
and
the arbitrariness of these fragnnents
that don't add up to
going
anywhere,
Apparently., trnsteqd there,is a
gram-
mar of representation
and no irnper-
ative to acknowledge
any singular
Suthority.
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aslred
lH.hat
are
your
assets?' Truthfully, she re-
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prospgets';
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, But, my dear, this is a bcnk'.i'Andl
.rueful
iokes
too about the way her
iokes
get
repeated.
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you
know, economy, age, time,
poli.
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andr,.desjr€ aad
tlese are ways to tell a wsman's life.
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existing discursive mode; it'b an as
sertion that existing stryctureq of
thought and language are lartely
separate from and inadequate to the
reprmentation of feminine subJec-
tivity.i "Little EpisoAest offe*,a
n'it-
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phallqgoesatric
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that authority in one little episode
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his
pqsition
of
power
and into ttre
rhetoric of a
joke.
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politics
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