Vervreemding in Leora Farber se The futility of writing 24-page letters (2009)
Abstract
This article
investigates the concept of alienation in Leora Farber’s The futility of writing 24-page letters
(as an extension of a work titled Between Cup and Lip as part of the Dis-Location/Re-Location,
2007/2008 exhibition). This is done from a feminist-postcolonial framework in order to
investigate the layered complexities surrounding alienation that arise during the oppression
of the marginalised. The postcolonial theoretical discourse with its emphasis on the ’other’
and the psychic alienation of the marginalised influences the feminist discourse regarding the
estrangement of the woman. In feminist discourses, ‘alienation’ refers to the estrangement
women experience in a patriarchal society. We argue that these letters indicate oppressed
psychic alienation and self alienation which are the result of stereotyping, cultural domination
and sexual objectification. We further argue that Farber’s The futility of writing 24-page letters
reveals complex layers of alienation
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