'There’s a deep-seated cultural bias in favor of male writers — that their stories are important and universal and women’s stories are frivolous, or niche.' Via theriveterco
There’s a deep-seated cultural bias in favor of male writers — that their stories are important and universal and women’s stories are frivolous, or niche.layperson — consider the late Harold Bloom, an esteemed literary critic and Yale professor. In his bookBloom creates a list of writers whom he deems to be theimportant literary figures of the western world. Of the twenty-six writers, only four are women, all white. Only two of the writers are Latin American. None are black.
Of the twenty-six writers, only four are women, all white. Only two of the writers are Latin American. None are black. One could argue that Bloom’s list is descriptive and not prescriptive — that is to say, to claim that he’s not tofor a universal bias towards male literature, he’s just pointing it out. But it just doesn’t work like that: the idea of the “Great Works” is self-reinforcing. People who want to be well-read will read the books on the list of the greatest books of all time, and then when they make(I’m a little embarrassed to say I notice that phenomena in myself when I go to art museums.
“At Bucknell,” Kessler writes, “They’re reading ‘Station Eleven,’ which is ‘set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse.’ Get it? ‘The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change,’ as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez alerted us. Read up, then pop a Zoloft.”, by Emily St. John Mandel, before he dismissed it as liberal propaganda. Do you know how I know? Becausehas absolutely nothing to do with climate change.
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