Truth and History
- Created by: Honor Burke
- Created on: 25-11-19 21:54
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- Truth and History
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- Celebrates the female position, reworking the historical fabric
- Subverts the roles of masculinity: conceit of woman's insertion in the male sphere
- Female success: 'Hat trick', winning the 'Grand Slam'. Related to femininity: 'tampon', 'blood' with teammates singing her 'name', the ball a 'precious egg'
- Traditionally masculine championship and feminine intimacies= the modern woman, a conglomerate of Rhea and Hercules
- Women a valued part of history: 'carried shoulder high by the boys'
- Liberation: Woman steps in for Ringo to 'climb on the drums, clever fingered and thumbed' inciting 'screams' 'hot as sex'; the seats 'wet'
- Oranges
- Challenges the truth of the patriarchal histories that construct humanity's understanding of the world
- 'The people who found Atlantis' aligned with men who live 'with mermaids'- no difference between history and myth; masculine history reduced to 'the fishiest of fish tales'
- History is told according to a lens 'tinted, tilted, smashed'
- Manipulates narrative to disrupt the literary order: meta narratives ('Oranges is an experimental novel'- Winterson, 1991)
- Deuteronomy destabilises the master narrative
- Winterson warns against 'stuffing down' these masculine rearrangements of the truth. Advocates conscious questioning
- Female voice delivers the Deuteronomy declaration; intercepts an entire culture, the 'little fleas' on the backs of 'big fleas'
- Bible Deuteronomy records the 10 Cs
- Corresponds most with the Bible as it grips the reader directly: 'if you want to keep your own teeth, make your own sandwiches'
- The old order is 'rotten and rotting' in the 'gut[s]' of lying patriarchs
- Challenges the truth of the patriarchal histories that construct humanity's understanding of the world
- The Virgin's Memo
- Pastiche Apocrypha
- Mary victim to the canonical process of the proto orthodox church
- Contemporary tone: 'Maybe not … son': modern feminist revolution
- Pride in the maternal presence: Jesus crafted from his mother's love rather than divine providence- the Gospel is 'about the way mothers always stand by their children regardless'
- Alphabetisation of the diseases: depth of empathy and knowledge from 'abscesses' to 'wasps'
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