Cărtărescu and Hanganu-Bresch on Women and Men
Cristina has translated a piece written by Mircea Cărtărescu titled "A Few Reasons Why We Love Women" (November 1 post) and written her own response. She muses that Cărtărescu's text possibly "could not even be conceived in this culture," and would most likely be read as at best essentialist thinking that takes "men" and "women" as already-constituted groups and reifies the man-woman gender binary (but that's just me in my poststructuralist feminist hat), and at worst would be read as, to use Cristina's terms, a "patriarchal political statement." Yeah, probably. But I have to say, the pieces don't bother me at all. To be honest, though, the fact that Cristina's a good friend of mine and that, well, I wouldn't mind running off to Split with Cărtărescu do have a bit to do with it. :evil:
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What I like about the piece C
What I like about the piece Cartarescu piece is that in it he defines about his ideal of femininity in the context of living. In the connections and actions, which could be mistaken for fixed identities but actually have more to do with living in a specific society in a certain moment in time. It is so utterly Eastern European. And yes, I have to agree that it is utterly out of context here.
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