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Opopanax

a genus of perennial herbaceous plants of the family Umbelliferae. The leaves are pinnate with entire or deeply separated segments. The petals are yellow and have recurved tips. The fruit is obovate or round. There are three or four species, found primarily in the Mediterranean area. One species, O. armeniacum, is found in the USSR, growing on rocky slopes in Armenia. The Mediterranean species O. chironium contains a substance in the roots that is used in perfumery.

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In The Opoponax the translator used "you" instead of "one" even though, as she has noted, the use of "one" in English is no heavier than in French; and in Les Guerilleres the feminine plural elle is most often translated as "the women" rather than "they"--both of which offer a different valence than elle.

In memoriam: Monique Wittig: a tribute to the innovative philosopher/poet/novelist who died in January 2003

." This similarity may have led Wittig's translator to use the English word you to render the ubiquitous on of L'Opoponax. Wittig's subsequent annoyance over this choice suggests an important difference between the two, a difference I suspect is rooted in divergent narrative persons.

I etcetera: on the poetics and ideology of multipersoned narratives

Among other treasured Daughters Press titles on my bookshelf, I have copies of Monique Wittig's The Opoponax, Bertha Harris' Lover and June Arnold's Sister Gin and The Cook and the Carpenter.

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