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Re: the (fe)male hand (was Re: momma)
--- "J. Marie Hall" <fionaeval at yahoo_com> wrote:
> EG---- female novelists are less
> likely to write in circularity, more toward
> linearity?
>
> JM-->actually, i'd reverse that. but first, i'd say
> that i don't think there's a graduated process from
> circular narrative to linear, fwiw. the circular is
> more frequent in the women's work i've read...but
> also
> in a lot of eastern, indigenous origins too. it's
> that all-too-popular dichotomy of man/woman,
> subject/object, west/east, self/subaltern(other).
julia alvarez said the same thing about circularity in
female novelists when i saw her about 10 years ago. i
don't get it, it's always seemed the opposite to me
but that maybe i've read mostly white european women
wrietrs?
add nature/nurture to the binary opposites/dichotomy,
eh? i invariably argue on the side of nurture though,
and it was truly enlightening a few years back when a
very nature-oriented clinician friend of mine from
undergrad could not get beyond my statement that
beyond higher-level ethical structure, there probably
wasn't a hell of a lot of difference between my own
personality/general patterns of individuation and
those of ted kasczinsky. it amazes me the
value-addled definition that she had of the phrase
*individuation* and the incredulousness and panicked
arguing that ensued. i chalked it down to the fact
that she never really left connecticut and didn't know
much nietzsche (or at least never took him that
seriously) ;)
wow, that makes me feel like a dead white euro male
once again :)
thankful for his folks and almost outta the salt mine,
eric
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