frEE idea for a syllabus or reading/thinking project: Brats/Trapped
In an interview in conjunction with her beautiful book Indelicacy, Amina Cain says, "I am interested in brattiness, and I wanted to explore that in the character of Vitória. I wanted to explore her flaws."
Although I read about this "brattiness" business after I read the novel--and of course this was before the stupid explosion of half-baked liberal enthusiasm for the deeply conservative Kamala Harris--the notion hung over me as I read (just finished this morning) Nella Larsen's Quicksand. (Holy shit the final moment of that novel is shocking.)
So here's a free project or syllabus:
Brats (/) Trapped (?)
Weeds — Feminist Press (I LOVE this book, which I came into quite accidentally; it has one of the most wonderful moments in my whole remembered experience of Literature--I won't tarnish anyone's experience of it, raw.)
Ultimately, someone might also look at Gregor Samsa's sister, the flapper in Day of the Locusts, and some of the opening paragraphs about an imagined young woman and her inventive way of living, in Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments.
Comments
Post a Comment