why I am not doing a PhD
Because I honestly don't think I can spend the rest of my life doing stuff like this and still take myself seriously.
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from Parker, Emma. '"Apple Pie" Ideology and the Politics of Appetite in the Novels of Toni Morrison.' Contemporary Literature. 39.4 (1998), 614-643.
'Audre Lorde has remarked that for African American women, "oppression is as American as apple pie" (114). The fiction of Toni Morrison provides an exploration of the effects of dominant (white, male) American cultural values or "apple pie" ideology on the African American community, particularly its women, and does so in terms of what can be called the politics of appetite. This essay examines Morrison's representation of the way in which issues of gender and race shape appetite. It looks at the themes of hunger and cannibalism but focuses specifi- cally on sugar. In Morrison's novels fruit pies and other sweet foods have a special significance...'
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posted by eothen @ 11:30 pm
2 Comments:
That's because you're working in the wrong period. Plus you have a modus operandi that often/sometimes yields absurd results. Which is why I think there should be a revolt against theory (not happening) or, better still, people should just stop studying anything written after WWII. :P
The Return of New Criticism, perhaps? :)
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