Re: Salinger this, buddy!
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Wed, 10 Nov 1999 20:57:31 -0500 (EST)
Meredith --
the orange peel thing was a recontextualizing of the dialog upon pumpkin into the fruit world, a dialog which had been previously informed by culinary centered readings (reflective, it goes without saying, of the white male stomach structure dominant in our society) but has now been placed in the vegetable realm. This recontexualizing avoids the implicit phallogocentrism of vegetable readings while simultaneously associating "pumpkin" with "fruit," the natural, the beneficient mother-earth/goddess.
Jim