This is enlightening--thanks!

In fact, isn't this a lot like the 100 Great Books?

Every canon has its powerplays, politics and price. In books, women are

missing, and when there, they are mostly PD (public domain--no royalties;

also, conveniently, dead). A recent book on women writers dated 1994 has

NO women of color except Toni Morrison (Nobel oblige, I guess...) True,

she only refers to women born until 1931, but where then are Zora Neale

Hurston? Audre Lorde? Adrienne Rich?

Similarly with film: almost no women, and certainly no independent (in

every sense of the word) woman! Not to mention films independent of major

distribution, mainstream politics, etc.

 

Liora Moriel

Comparative Literature Program

University of Maryland

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College Park, MD 20742-8825

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"We have cooperated for a very long time in the maintenance of our own

invisibility.  And now the party is over."                - Vito Russo

 

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