reading
Reading:
- Wildly Parenthetical.
- Slaves of Academe on interracial marriage and miscegenation politics.
- Kpunk and Poetix on Lee Edelman, a crossover of theoretical fields (queer theory-freud vs high-philosophy mondopostlacanian-badiouism) that has resulted in some unintentionally amusing claims. Like, ‘the queer event’, assuming there was only ever one and we can know it: Stonewall, or Freud? People are seriously debating this.
On the other hand, Kpunk’s musings on Rebecca are serendipitous (as well as interesting), as I’ve been rereading that novel this week, enjoying the slow build of our unnamed heroine’s desire for this hauntingly beautiful, but curiously also genderbent, object of desire: “I knew her figure now, the long slim legs, the small and narrow feet. Her shoulders, broader than mine, the strong and clever hands.” Mmm, gotta go watch the film again soon.
ah, ‘rebecca’
i still remember the film very fondly - bill collins in 1990, was he gonna tell his viewers about the dangerous dyke Mrs Danvers, the elegantly pre-sexual Joan Fontaine (but she gets all right-wing/conservative man’s wife to end), Laurence Olivier trynna seem hetero (wasn’t he doing the nasty with danny kaye??)
rebecca is well worth revisiting, for the sea of analytical possibilities it still offers and for Nostalgia in the BEST sense of that word
Bill Collins may not have been all wrong
Comment by jay — June 25, 2007 @ 12:56 pm
Yeah, I realised that the book winds up being crazy right-wing and conservative, much more so than Hitchcock’s interpretation, which is heavy on the (queer) subtext. It’s all about reproducing the seat of aristocratic power and/or heterosexuality… But Manderley does burn in the end, at least.
Comment by Az — June 25, 2007 @ 3:52 pm