Re: Meeting Joyce Maynard

Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Fri, 18 Sep 1998 10:34:41 +1000

> In listening to Ms. Maynard read, it became increasingly clear her anger
> at her alcoholoic father was focused on Mr. Salinger...probably then and
> seemingly now. 

I'm glad someone else noticed that - it seemed to me some really weird,
Oepidal stuff was happening there - her mother dressing her up in the dress
with the ABCs on it was particularly creepy. I imagine also that Maynard
has - just like us - turned the real man Salinger into a collection of
different things, mainly a projection of her own mind. I think by studying
Salinger and his phenomena we tend to learn and reveal a lot about
ourselves.

We were studying the concept of foregrounding in Postmodernism yesterday -
we were using the Starr report as our basis (have you heard Ms Lewinski is
at our sunny shores by the way?) - certain aspects were censored - but
*after* they had already been disclosed (i.e. `cigar' was altered to
`object') - which had the effect of drawing attention to the thing rather
than detracting from it. I wonder if Salinger is aware of a similar
phenomena?

Camille 
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