"Correcting Her Idea of Politically Correct"

[Dave Monroe]

>From Alan Riding, "Correcting Her Idea of Politically
Correct," New York Times, Saturday, July 14th, 2001
...

"In France, Julia Kristeva is best known as the wife
of Philippe Sollers, a high profile French novelist.
In the United States, by contrast, it is Ms. Kristeva
who has long enjoyed both recognition and notoriety,
admired by many for her teachings and writings on
linguistics, sexuality and psychoanalysis, criticized
by others for stimulating the rise of
multiculturalism."

[...]

"Now, however, at age 60, Ms. Kristeva is bringing a
new twist to this bizarre trans-Atlantic to-and-fro.
She feels she has been misunderstood in the United
States by the very circles that have embraced her as
an icon of feminism and multiculturalism.  'Many of
our American colleagues have taken what we proposed
and have simplified it, caricatured it and made it
politically correct,' she said.  'I can no longer
recognize myself.'"

[...]

"Today, however, Ms. Kristeva believes that the group
identity adopted by some feminist, gay and ethnic
leaders as a pedestal for their revindications is
outdated and even, in her word, 'totalitarian,' that
freedom of the individual should take precedence over
communitarianism, that political assertion of sexual,
ethnic and religious identities eventually erodes
democracy."

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/14/arts/14KRIS.html?todaysheadlines

Just in time for Bastille Day, even if, like another
fave Frenchwoman, Sylvie Vartan, Julia Kristeva was
born in Bulgaria ...

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