SPEECH FROM THE MARGIN: GERTRUDE STEIN'S TENDER BUTTONS AND AGÁTA GORDON'S KECSKERÚZS
SPEECH FROM THE MARGIN: GERTRUDE STEIN'S TENDER BUTTONS AND AGÁTA GORDON'S KECSKERÚZS

Summary/Abstract: The various feminist projects converge on the idea that language (constructed in its largest sense, as the varied system of discourses through which the world becomes constructed) is the primary cultural agency through which the masculine dominates and represses the feminine. To effect a change at all, it is necessary to undermine language from within, or to mark the ways in which language reveals its own undermining. In much feminist thought, language is understood as a wholly phallogocentric and monolithic domain, which has no place for the "woman" who becomes in her difference and otherness the figure for all that remains repressed and silenced. I am analyzing two works by women writers that foreground the issues of marginality and textuality. They belong to different literary traditions: Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons to the American modernist, and Agáta Gordon's Kecskerúzs to the contemporary Hungarian literary context.

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