Subject: stereotypes
From: Jennifer Kelly (jekelly@bu.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 26 1997 - 01:27:15 GMT
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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 16:37:10 -0600 (CST)
From: Andrew Kennis <kennis@math.grin.edu>
To: bananafish@cassatt.Mass-USR.COM
Subject: Re: Avoidance of stereotypes and the true themes of "Eskimos"
I ask you now, are you convinced that stereotypes are not only a bad thing,
but are also very dangerous? Still unconvinced?
The number of people who have either have had a lack of faith in JDS's
abilities to exploit *real* literary devices other than resorting to
dropping stereotypes (which I really do not think requires a significant
degree of talent) and who also have even tried to justify the use of
stereotypes as if they were harmless, is rather unsettling to me.
--AK
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1) I, nor anybody else on the list, has not denied JDS's right to use
stereotypes.
2) Also, I never said I knew with any degree of certainty that JDS didn't
use them in his literature, I just said that I hadn't noticed any and had
hoped there wasn't any. :-)
--AK
AK-I really think that you, in #1 contradict what you said above. I
think that by whole heartedly clinging to a 1997 politically correct
version of stereotype as utterly inappropriate in the writing of someone
we must have faith in (hey is that yet another reference to JDS as a
God?) who wrote 50 years ago is a denial of the use of stereotypes in
literature. You even go so far as to say you hope that there weren't any
stereotypes in JDS's literature. Open your eyes and see that if it
weren't for stereotypes we couldn't recognize how insane Seymour is right
before he kills himself. According to stereotypes or even legitimate
cultural traits and norms, if that is the terminology you wish to use,
no normal person would behave in an elevator in such a way!!!
Yours Truly,
JK
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