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If Beale Street Could Talk
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love baldwin to the marrow, his corageous and tender writing, the complexity he puts together. BUT some things in this book made my skin crawl.
when focused on multiple layers of racism and the deep injustice in the american prison system, it is a beautiful tale of love and resistance.
however, when looking at many of the hunt family dynamics, and internal dialogues on what is a man, what is a woman, and even the way the loving couple refers to their loving bond etc it suddenly becomes misogynistic as hell.
a lot of abuse there, friends, going on quite unchecked. abuse & violence, lots, no questions asked. in such a pedagogical novel on institutionalized and internalized racism, the no problematization approach on this specifically bothered
me some.
seemed like there was a huge blind spot there.
i don't tend to be that sensitive to misoginy in writing (after all there is a lot of it), but this did not seem ok in this case.
too bad for me this novel did not rub me the right way. i really wanted to like it tons.
well: taking care of one another is hard stuff, as he recognizes. we need to be able to root out the violence in order to do that.
when focused on multiple layers of racism and the deep injustice in the american prison system, it is a beautiful tale of love and resistance.
however, when looking at many of the hunt family dynamics, and internal dialogues on what is a man, what is a woman, and even the way the loving couple refers to their loving bond etc it suddenly becomes misogynistic as hell.
a lot of abuse there, friends, going on quite unchecked. abuse & violence, lots, no questions asked. in such a pedagogical novel on institutionalized and internalized racism, the no problematization approach on this specifically bothered
me some.
seemed like there was a huge blind spot there.
i don't tend to be that sensitive to misoginy in writing (after all there is a lot of it), but this did not seem ok in this case.
too bad for me this novel did not rub me the right way. i really wanted to like it tons.
well: taking care of one another is hard stuff, as he recognizes. we need to be able to root out the violence in order to do that.
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