Anthony Burgess on race-hate castration poetry

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In Search of Anthony Burgess

In Search of Anthony Burgess

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Writing in 1988, Burgess recalls that when he was lecturing at a university in the USA, 'certain of my black students brought me poems about the desirable castration of white men. I was sincerely reviled for not approving of them. Literature does not work in this way. It cannot base itself on sectarian prejudices. A Nazi poetry is a contradiction in terms'.

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@nickwyatt9498
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I think the feminist academic from whom Burgess sublet a Manhattan apartment in the 70s was Adrienne Rich(e?) who was fairly keen on chaps having their choppers chopped.
@InSearchOfAnthonyBurgess
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Ah yes, the celebrated man-hater.
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Confronted with Adrienne Rich, Prince Harry can kiss goodbye to his todger.
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'Women have been driven mad, gaslighted, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience. The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have a primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each others' sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other. Women have often felt insane when cleaving to the truth of our experience. Our future depends on the sanity of each of us, and we have a profound stake, beyond the personal, in the project of describing our reality as candidly and fully as we can to each other.' I doubt your sanity, lass.
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What dreary rot: 'Re-vision - the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival. Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity: it is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.'
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'The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.' H.W. Fowler, at least, pedantic though he may be, would have a few things to explain to this only semi-literate woman about the proper forms and structure of the English language.
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