http://www.narcissism101.com/Beginning/mariecardinal.html
http://www.the-womens-press.com/wordstosay.htm
Boileau:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Boileau-Despr%C3%A9aux
Antonia S. Byatt:
http://www.asbyatt.com/
Interesting concepts/articulations to me:
- "the Thing" (p. vi, viii-ix)
- A critical question raised by Morrison: "I was interested, as I had been for a long time, in the way black people ignite critical moments of discovery or change or emphasis in literature not written by them." (p. viii)
- the consequences of jazz
- "the subject of this book: the sources of these images and the effect they have on the literary imagination and its product." (p. x)
"writing and reading mean being aware of the writer's notions of risk and safety, the serene achievement of, or sweaty fight for, meaning and response-ability." (p. xi)
?s she raises:
- how is "literary whitenes" and "literary blackness" made, and what is the consequence of that construction?
- how do embedded assumptions of racial (not racist) language work in the literary enterprise that hopes and sometimes claims to be "humanistic"?
SHE's BRILLIANT!!!!!
1 comment:
Great points raised, sis!! I thought that was profound. More importantly, she calls for literary critics not to dismiss these "classics" be merely avoiding to not present the African or provide a narrative that is human. When in fact, the absence of the African is actually a present absence. I think it is a rather existentialist text reminds me of Jean Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingess and Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth & Black Skin, White Masks.
I concur with you. I think the questions you noted guide the text.
Thank YOU!
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