Saturday, 12 January 2013
Saturday, 22 December 2012
Hope
When my legs begin to twitch and my chest begins to heat, I will be reminded of the way your body twines around mine and the way the fibres of our skin braid us into one breathing pulse. I will be reminded of all the reasons that love can survive breathless underwater and how if your phantom kisses are sealing my lungs, I can too. I will silence these voices that attempt to thieve the calm pooling in my very cells, and gag these fears that attempt to paralyse my patience. They may say many things, but they do not know the power and stamina and hope that floods my veins. They do not know the durability that keeps me anchored in transit, waiting for the rise of every morning. They do not know. So they may whisper and lie and tempt, but they will simply find me each dawn, humming the earth closer to the centre of gravity.
Friday, 14 December 2012
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Feminist Reading of Literary Women
Anyone interesting in feminist reading, particularly feminist readings of literary texts — I recommend looking into Susan Pevensie, of The Chronicles of Narnia.
I'm currently reading • The Problem of Susan by Neil Gaiman, alongside: • C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia by Michelle Ann Abata & Lance Weldy (eds.), and • Of Men and Mice: C. S. Lewis on Male–Female Interactions by Gretchen Bartels (from volume 22, issue 3. of Literature and Theology, by Oxford Journals).
It's extremely interesting to critique and review C.S. Lewis's parallels in Susan's character.
She becomes a woman — sexual, & confident ["she's interested in nothing now-a-days except nylons and lipstick and invitations"] — and therefore dismisses Narnia, thematically representative of innocence, religion, and other approved social norms.
YOU'LL ALSO WANT TO LOOK INTO:
• In Defense of Susan Pevensie by Libby Anne
• Redeeming Susan Pevensie by Fred Clark
• The Question of Susan by Kit Whitfield and Hapax
• The Problem of Susan by R.J. Anderson
I'm currently reading • The Problem of Susan by Neil Gaiman, alongside: • C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia by Michelle Ann Abata & Lance Weldy (eds.), and • Of Men and Mice: C. S. Lewis on Male–Female Interactions by Gretchen Bartels (from volume 22, issue 3. of Literature and Theology, by Oxford Journals).
It's extremely interesting to critique and review C.S. Lewis's parallels in Susan's character.
She becomes a woman — sexual, & confident ["she's interested in nothing now-a-days except nylons and lipstick and invitations"] — and therefore dismisses Narnia, thematically representative of innocence, religion, and other approved social norms.
YOU'LL ALSO WANT TO LOOK INTO:
• In Defense of Susan Pevensie by Libby Anne
• Redeeming Susan Pevensie by Fred Clark
• The Question of Susan by Kit Whitfield and Hapax
• The Problem of Susan by R.J. Anderson
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