MDDM Gershom's Intervention (was ...

[jbor]

on 14/7/02 12:27 PM, MalignD at aol.com at MalignD at aol.com wrote:

> 
> Whether or not "Dr." Walker was making a valid point, mine was to underscore
> that Millison was yanking a source off the internet to back up his point, a
> source intended to be regarded as authoritive by dint of her being black.
> 
> In fact she labors in a field notable for its low level of scholarship and
> her opinion attracts no particular weight or authority.
> 


Fair enough. From the few snips from her book and resume that have been
poached from the web and cut and pasted to the list I thought that she, at
least, seemed to have some credibility.

What I found absurd was the attempt to yoke _M&D_, and the depiction of
Gershom in particular, to an "Afrocentric" perspective - with that
particular lobby's insistence "upon seeing and portraying ourselves through
the revelations of our own experiences and interpretations, as opposed to
through the revelations of others based on their experiences and
interpretations", and their ardent concern about "misrepresentation" - what
with Pynchon being white and all, and his 1760s African-American "slave"
character in the novel represented as being by choice both Jewish and a
stand-up comedian, and effectively at liberty to do as he wishes, amongst
many other travesties.

best