Give me more of that "white gang" "black gang" thang. Please expound.
~rave! --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "Carole McDonnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Literary deconstruction is pretty fun though. Often it's about the > reviewer's insight. I agree that writers often aren't consciously > aware of what "The Black Gang"/The Muse/The subconscious is writing. > But sometimes when I read a review by a particularly insightful > reviewer I am amazed at how much they have my emotions pegged, how > many lovely things in my story I get to "take credit for," how they > can pretty much guess what books or kind of books I've read. The only > time they miss the point is when, because they don't know the facts > of my life, they belittle something I consider important. > > In my opinion most really great stories can be deconstructed > endlessly because there is always something lovely and deep in it for > anyone in any century to find. It's the really bad stories that seem > to have only one point. > > For all I know The Wizard of Oz was the Golden Compass of its time. > > As for taking sides, my opinion is: if an author says he meant to put > something in the book, don't always believe him. Sometimes he was > consciously aware (The white gang) and sometimes the black gang might > have put it in the book. If an authors says he didn't mean to put > something in a book and we are misreading his work, the same applies. > Believe him or not. If the subtext is especially heinous, definitely > don't believe the author. The typical author is not going to admit he > is racist, sexist, a closet rap*st or whatever. > > -C > > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "ravenadal" <ravenadal@> > wrote: > > > > What is fascinating to me about the whole "allegory thang" is how > > authors, readers and critics take sides on whether not that is what > > the author meant. Which is ridiculous. Literary deconstruction is > > totally not dependent on what was the writer's intent. This is > true > > because often the writer, him or herself, is unaware of the alchemy > > happening as they take pen to paper or fingers to keypad. > > >
