The Other as Another Other

Green, Karen

doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.2002.tb01071.x

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“…Many of these critiques have themselves been challenged, however (e.g. Green 2002), and in any number of ways it is clear that Beauvoir's vocabulary continues to be powerfully productive both within and outside of strictly academic modes of feminism (e.g. Guenther 2010).…”

Section: Beauvoir: Transcendence Immanence and The Feminine As Othermentioning

confidence: 99%

The eropolitical compound: immanence, transcendence and a parasitic operation of patriarchy in Sanskrit literature

Austin

2023

Bull. Sch. Orient. Afr. stud.

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This paper examines a pattern in Sanskrit literature, labelled for convenience the “eropolitical compound”. This is a formula whereby a male protagonist's claiming of a feminine figure is made instrumental to, or tied indissociably with, a political victory or reclamation of control over a public domain. This paper first reviews a number of examples of the motif in well-known works of drama, poetry, and eulogistic inscriptions largely of the fourth–seventh centuries ce, setting these against the particular historical and social contexts in which they occur. In a second step, the motif is identified at work in other genre and historic contexts of Sanskrit tradition, suggesting thereby that the figure also requires treatment at a broader level of analysis. The paper's third and final step is to adopt from Simone de Beauvoir the constructs of immanence, transcendence, and the woman as Other, in order to argue that the eropolitical compound is indeed a kind of formula or persisting theme that cuts across multiple historic and genre contexts, and that it should be seen as a normative construct reflecting and enacting a common strategy of patriarchal cultures.

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Section: Beauvoir: Transcendence Immanence and The Feminine As Othermentioning

confidence: 99%