Rebecca Solnit is also author of the very famous "Men Explain Things to Me," and the similarly titled small essay collection contains a bunch of other fine feminist work as well.
Palimpsest of all sorts exists because we so love to turn a familiar story or a beloved story around and look at it again-- and when we do that as readersm we become creators, and that is where fan-fic comes from, as well as a long-present and now-increasing amount of "official" literature.
And yet we also have people getting mad when the familiar story is turned a different way.
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Date: 2014-10-16 04:11 pm (UTC)Palimpsest of all sorts exists because we so love to turn a familiar story or a beloved story around and look at it again-- and when we do that as readersm we become creators, and that is where fan-fic comes from, as well as a long-present and now-increasing amount of "official" literature.
And yet we also have people getting mad when the familiar story is turned a different way.
Just mumbling to myself, here.
I like Solnit.