Ottimo l’articolo pubblicato sul Guardian sabato scorso e dedicato alle scrittrici americane, il cui lavoro viene spesso oscurato, senza motivi fondati, da quello dei colleghi uomini.
Moreover, serious women writers are much less likely than men to celebrate themselves, like Whitman (who anonymously and ecstatically reviewed Leaves of Grass) or to advertise themselves, like Mailer; and women are judged much more harshly if they are seen as self-promoting or self-important attention-seekers. As a result, they have lower public profiles and less name recognition. They do not marry models, actors or movie stars; they do not get chosen for People magazine’s “most beautiful” people of the year; they do not run for political office; they do not stab their spouses or get into brawls on the street; they do not carry sawn-off shotguns in the front of their cars. On the other hand, they don’t refuse to appear on Oprah, or brag about staying a little drunk every day; they do not become notorious recluses or unapproachable gurus. They are less likely to be in the headlines, the tabloids and the magazines, and less likely to be in the minds of literary list-makers.
L’articolo, disponibile qui, contiene molti spunti per letture interessanti. Da parte mia, non vedo l’ora di ascoltare Toni Morrison, il 20 maggio, ad Amsterdam.
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