HUD HUDSON
This novel doesn't begin to compare to Potter's The
Singing Detective,
but Xerxes thought it was worth the read. Despite
Potter's claim that he
was offering a commentary on misogyny, many critics claimed
that the novel
was itself misogynistic. Here's an interesting passage
from the book
that seems to suggest that the critics were onto something:
"In the book, the bloody book, Kingsley had reduced the
girl to a zombie yet again,
turning her matter-of-fact description and matter-of-fact
contempt into a mute psychosis.
How many times, she wondered, would allegedly sympathetic
accounts of the manifold
ways in which women were so regularly humiliated be nothing
more than
yet further exercises of the same impulse, the identical
power?"
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Any comments you might have for Xerxes
can be sent to Hud[dot]Hudson[at]wwu[dot]edu.
I will see to it that she receives them.
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