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Jul. 17th, 2007 01:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI read more of the Lit & Gender book. Now I only have left the chapter I'd have to buy a book for and the conclusion. And a section I skipped because I couldn't muster any interest whatsoever in that writer.
Chapter I just read was very interesting, albeit hellish depressing. Women & madness.
Text it focused on was The Yellow Wallpaper. (The version I linked to has more --- in it than the one in the textbook. Subtly changes the effect, when it was all in one piece.)
Story is creepy like the best ghost stories, that sort of sick sinking horror when you know what is going on. But it's probably not a ghost story at all, strictly.
Juliet Landau is going to be the narrator lady in a movie. Probably the narrator. She doesn't have a name in the story but the husband doctor is John.
The film seems to have rather more people in it than the story. Hmmm.
Having read this book about all these women authors who went mad and killed themselves and all these women characters who go mad or get sexually abused or do crime or just end up in a great big mess, what I really want to do is collect all the authors and characters that in no way fit that pattern. There's quite a lot of people in the world who are not crazy and do not kill themselves and don't suffer any form of domestic abuse and yet do things that go in stories or indeed write them. There's ever so many people who don't feel a tension between art and life but rather a creative completion. And it's increasingly difficult to be isolated even in a very domestic life - all these people here do much talking and also do cleaning and suchlike. Plus I don't feel that my options are limited or defined by men, even though statistics say they maybe are. So it's like... book full of history. I feel more connection to sci fi women or Doctor Who companions because they may be in situations I will never face but they react more like I would like to and learn stuff and grow and on the whole do not go crazy at all.
... actually, especially if you include mind control, there is quite a bit of crazy as well.
... not the point.
Swords and phasers and... grand struggles to overthrow the evil empire seem to have much more to do with me than being stuck in some house with some man. I used to be stuck in some house but then I decided not to be and went in my own house instead. So where's the story about what happens next?
There's a chapter on Top Girls which is a play with 100% women and has a what happens next but it's really rather depressing and about how they couldn't have a job and a child and how things end up with losing children and sometimes getting stoned to death. Again, I can understand the concerns, but they're none of them mine.
Authors I like are like Lois McMaster Bujold writing space opera detective action adventure mystery thingies and making sure nobody forgets the babies. Stories with all the parts left in. It's good when there's stuff about home and family in there, but I don't want my stories stuck in the house any more than I want to be.
... I am aware of the irony imparted to that statement by my ongoing agoraphobia.
... I do go places quite often. Like college. That's a very big place, especially as expressed by population and information density.
And also here is a place too.
*waves*
We are many.
I shall now go and write a horror story, about being stuck in a house, that's all tied up with images of femininity. This was in fact my plan since before reading that chapter. But now the pencil is all sharpened, sort of thing.
Chapter I just read was very interesting, albeit hellish depressing. Women & madness.
Text it focused on was The Yellow Wallpaper. (The version I linked to has more --- in it than the one in the textbook. Subtly changes the effect, when it was all in one piece.)
Story is creepy like the best ghost stories, that sort of sick sinking horror when you know what is going on. But it's probably not a ghost story at all, strictly.
Juliet Landau is going to be the narrator lady in a movie. Probably the narrator. She doesn't have a name in the story but the husband doctor is John.
The film seems to have rather more people in it than the story. Hmmm.
Having read this book about all these women authors who went mad and killed themselves and all these women characters who go mad or get sexually abused or do crime or just end up in a great big mess, what I really want to do is collect all the authors and characters that in no way fit that pattern. There's quite a lot of people in the world who are not crazy and do not kill themselves and don't suffer any form of domestic abuse and yet do things that go in stories or indeed write them. There's ever so many people who don't feel a tension between art and life but rather a creative completion. And it's increasingly difficult to be isolated even in a very domestic life - all these people here do much talking and also do cleaning and suchlike. Plus I don't feel that my options are limited or defined by men, even though statistics say they maybe are. So it's like... book full of history. I feel more connection to sci fi women or Doctor Who companions because they may be in situations I will never face but they react more like I would like to and learn stuff and grow and on the whole do not go crazy at all.
... actually, especially if you include mind control, there is quite a bit of crazy as well.
... not the point.
Swords and phasers and... grand struggles to overthrow the evil empire seem to have much more to do with me than being stuck in some house with some man. I used to be stuck in some house but then I decided not to be and went in my own house instead. So where's the story about what happens next?
There's a chapter on Top Girls which is a play with 100% women and has a what happens next but it's really rather depressing and about how they couldn't have a job and a child and how things end up with losing children and sometimes getting stoned to death. Again, I can understand the concerns, but they're none of them mine.
Authors I like are like Lois McMaster Bujold writing space opera detective action adventure mystery thingies and making sure nobody forgets the babies. Stories with all the parts left in. It's good when there's stuff about home and family in there, but I don't want my stories stuck in the house any more than I want to be.
... I am aware of the irony imparted to that statement by my ongoing agoraphobia.
... I do go places quite often. Like college. That's a very big place, especially as expressed by population and information density.
And also here is a place too.
*waves*
We are many.
I shall now go and write a horror story, about being stuck in a house, that's all tied up with images of femininity. This was in fact my plan since before reading that chapter. But now the pencil is all sharpened, sort of thing.