Julia Kristeva, the Bulgarian-French philosopher who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, is cited in “Mired in Trials and Transitions” (Arnab Bhattacharya, The Calcutta Telegraph, 16.05.12), a review of “Breaking Out: An Indian Woman’s American Journey” by Padma Desai: “Writing about oneself is never easy. Writing itself is an act of framing which involves choosing some aspects of a subject and rejecting others. The framing of the subject and the issue of what to select and what not to is fiercely contested from within. It is then that the concept of the ‘subject’ emerges in its two different forms — as someone who thinks for, and writes by, herself, and as someone who is being thought about. These two different approaches coalesce and contrast with each other, bringing forth, as Julia Kristeva would say, a unique ‘sujet en procès’”
Julia Kristeva, the Bulgarian-French philosopher who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, is cited in “Mired in Trials and Transitions” (Arnab Bhattacharya, The Calcutta Telegraph, 16.05.12), a review of: Breaking Out: An Indian Woman’s American Journey by Padma Desai: “Writing about oneself is never easy. Writing itself is an act of framing which involves choosing some aspects of a subject and rejecting others. The framing of the subject and the issue of what to select and what not to is fiercely contested from within. It is then that the concept of the ‘subject’ emerges in its two different forms — as someone who thinks for, and writes by, herself, and as someone who is being thought about. These two different approaches coalesce and contrast with each other, bringing forth, as Julia Kristeva would say, a unique ‘sujet en procès’.”
