Angela
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I often wonder if Hemingway, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald....etc.. would have ever been as lauded if the default for the literature we were taught in school wasn't white men.
11:22 AM - Apr 20, 2023
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Megan Kotte
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In response to Angela.
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I often wonder all that we don’t know that we should for that very reason.
12:28 AM - Jul 13, 2023 (Edited)
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Salma Typhii
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In response to Angela.
Steinbeck's labor literature (e.g. Cannery Row, Grapes of Wrath) might have still been recognized
12:32 PM - Apr 20, 2023
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Angela
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In response to Salma Typhii.
I would agree with that.
12:50 PM - Apr 20, 2023
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Serendipity
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In response to Angela.
The problem isn’t so much what we have (and I really wouldn’t want to lose The Great Gatsby) but what is missing.
12:30 PM - Apr 20, 2023
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RA
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In response to Angela.
All of their great works would have been much better if the story were from the perspective of an historically marginalized character. Can you imagine a Great Gatsby written by the servants?!
11:30 AM - Apr 20, 2023
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Angela
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In response to RA.
Or at least an Upstairs/Downstairs type retelling. I'm not a fan of that book at all but thing he redeemed himself slightly with Tender is the Night which was a pretty compassionate retelling of being in love with someone who suffers from mental illness.
11:32 AM - Apr 20, 2023
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Mlb Anx
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In response to Angela.
GREAT question
11:24 AM - Apr 20, 2023
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Angela
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In response to Mlb Anx.
Which of course leads to the most depressing question of just how much art, science, literature, philosophy, you name it was lost to oppression.
11:28 AM - Apr 20, 2023
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