Barabary Johnson argue that the monstrousness of selfhood is intimately
embedded within the question of female autobiography.
She asserts, how could it be
otherwise, since the very notion of self, the very shape of human life stories, has
always from Saint Augustine to Freud, been modeled on the man?” (World of
Difference 154)ii B
Johnson’s work, whether on Barbie, Mallarmé, on Freud and race, or on Wordsworth always looks to the question of the very tenuous structure of authority—in the law, in deliberately subversive texts, in considerations of sexuality.
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