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Subject: ADS-L Digest - 13 Oct 1997 to 14 Oct 1997
There are 6 messages totalling 274 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

 1. "womanist" vs. "feminist" cite
 2. Call: Spanish in US/Contact
 3. AmEnglish external sandhi
 4. FWD: RCPT: Re: New text books
 5. pre-nasalized stops (2)

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Date:  Tue, 14 Oct 1997 09:18:00 -0500
From:  "Emerson, Jessie J" <jjemerso[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]INGR.COM>
Subject: Re: "womanist" vs. "feminist" cite

I agree that there are probably other occasions when it might be
appropriate. I can foresee it being used, say, for a male author whose
writing is distinctly "female" (possessing characteristics of women's
writing) rather than feminist (which implies a political agenda). You
wouldn't call him a "female" writer (because that implies a distinct
gender), or a "feminist" writer (because there is no political agenda),
but you might call him a "womanist" writer. (Unless, of course,
"womanist" has become associated definitively with politics via Walker
and hooks.)

I am thinking of a specific author (whose name I can't remember,
unfortunately) that is discussed in these terms in literary theory,
although I can't remember if the term "womanist" is ever used.

Is anyone familiar with such a usage?

Jessie Emerson

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> From:     Larry Horn[SMTP:LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]yalevm.ycc.yale.edu]
> Sent:     Monday, 13 October, 1997 9:39 PM
> To:  ADS-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UGA.CC.UGA.EDU
> Subject:   Re: "womanist" vs. "feminist" cite
>
> I wasn't sure this one really fit the pattern myself. In the context
> of the
> novel I cited, "womanist" seems to correspond to what others have
> called
> "difference feminism". But maybe "womanist" is used in both these
> occasions--
> and others--where "feminist", for whatever reason, is inappropriate.
>
>           Larry
>