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1、ArwadEsberTranslated,withanintroductionbyMohamedZayaniInQuestoftheFeminine:TheStrangewithinUsAnInterviewwithJuliaKristevaIntroductionThisinterviewwithJuliaKristevadealswithanarrayofissuesandchal-lengesthatfacewomeninthepostmodernera.Asidefromitsintrinsicinterest
2、asareflectiononwomen'sissues,theinterviewisworthyofconsiderationbecauseitclarifiesKristeva'softenunspecifiedpositiontowardfeminism.Evenmoreinter-estingisthewideappealofherviews.Althoughmostofthequestionsaroundwhichtheinterviewrevolvespertaintowomen'sissues,thean
3、swersattempttoregroundthesequestionswithinalargerperspective.SuchenlargementishardlysurprisingwhenconsideringKristeva'spersonalhistory.Thestrangenessthatgivestheinterviewitstitleisadoublestrangeness--thatofthewomanandthatoftheforeigner.ThestoryofJuliaKristevaist
4、hatofaBulgarianwomanwhofoundherselfinarichintellectualParisianmilieuduringthelatesixties,atimewhenFrancewaswitnessinguniquesocioculturaldevelopmentsthatweretoleadtotheMayeventsof1968.SoonaftershearrivedinParis,shebecameanactivememberoftheTelQuelgroup,whichbrough
5、ttogetheranumberoftheoristsandphilosophers,someofwhomhavecometobetheleadingexpo-nentsofthepoststructuralistmovement.Althoughherwritingsweaveoutaplethoraofinterests(literature,art,politics,theology),probeavarietyofissues(truth,ethics,love,identity),andsynthesizea
6、numberofapproaches(Marxism,"InQuestoftheFeminine:TheStrangewithinUs"isaninterviewwithJuliaKristevathatwasoriginallypublishedinMawakif(AlsajiBooks)vols.73-74(1993-94):111-128.TheinterviewwasconductedbyArwadEsber,andisheretranslatedfromArabic,withanintroduction,by
7、MohamedZayani.ArwadEsber73semiotics),thenodalpointofherthoughtliesprimarilyintheintersectionbetweenlinguisticsandpsychoanalysis.WhiletheinterdisciplinarystrainofKristeva'sworkaccountsforwhatmaybetermedatangentialinterestinwomen'sissues,itdoesnotaccountforhercuri
8、ousdistancefromfeminism.Althoughoneofhernovelsisdevotedtowomen,andalthoughshehasproducedanumberofpsychoanalyticallyorientedexamina-tionsoftheproblemoffemininityandmot