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11-08-06, 05:04 PM
@Hat..I am no expert on women's novels and writers but have read many of the stuff coming out from the better writers, usually due to reasoning with sisters who recommended them and read them.
I think Morrison is one of the better women writers which have been produced. I think her characterisation of men is probably the best and fairest I have read. Mindful this is a woman's viewe and that is her bias so we are not necessarily endorse all that she believes. But I think she is a balanced sister.
But she is writer from the female gaze and we need to keep that central. But Sula, Bluest Eye and that body of work I think is excellent. Beloved was a complete jump and revelation in technique, style and complexity and I had to read it twice to get a handle on it...Well I think I have because it is that type of book.
But it was a brilliant piece of work and really got the emotions and brain working. Her book after that was it called Jazz or something...I did not read....
She deserves her stature and has done the work and has the skills and creative eye which has earned her her stature..No grumbles from me...
I however was disappointed with her edited collections of essays on the Clarence Thomas affair and think she like too many black women was quick to rush to judgement and take the soft option of a so called analysis to make Thomas the villian and that woman the victim when she was as nasty and dishonest as him...hiding the tactics of a scorned woman who thought nothing of having sexual relations at work and with her boss who was married to a white woman which really pissed her off when he would not leave her and then comes up with this bogus sexual harrassment charge..
So I think she needs to stay out of the poltical analysis business and stick to her strenghts ...
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