Abstract
Read via a range of contemporary theorists, including Gayatri Spivak, Luce Irigaray, and Jacques Derrida, Dido's suicide in the fourth book of Vergil's Aeneid can be seen as an intervention into figures of national territory. Rather than using the stabbed female body to figure national territory as an organically unified whole, as Livy does, Vergil uses Dido's suicide and dying curse to configure a telephonic national territory, produced and reproduced linguistically (and therefore teletechnologically) across time and space.
| Translated title of the contribution | Feminine Endings: Dido's Telephonic Body and the Originary Function of the Hymen |
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| Original language | English |
| Title of host publication | The Origins of Deconstruction |
| Editors | Martin McQuillan, Ika Willis |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 67 - 82 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780230581906 |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
