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Edited sections from my Master's thesis: "Sympathy Pain: Instances of Radical Empathy in Feminist Literature" (2020)
I’m very proud of what I wrote, even if I recognize its blemishes, weaknesses, and clumsiness. Still, I fear there’s something missing from the heart of my argument. I suspect I will stumble blindly into it one day, and it—whatever it is—will rattle the wind from my lungs.
If I had to isolate a central thesis statement, it might be what I wrote here: "The emphasis of the project, as this poem especially illustrates, is... a call for each woman (and each archetype Loba explores) to ‘slough off’ pain and violence, derivatives of patriarchal rule, as the universalizing agents of all womanhood and, instead, explore the labyrinths of their own ‘uniqueness’ to find self-definition independent of androcentric attitudes toward women."
It’s not a mantra or a dogma. It’s just enough to keep me moving. I follow the vibration of my mind toward and away from itself like the tides. When I’m clever enough to sniff them out, I am infinitely grateful to find wiser, braver voices that echo back.
A quirk of my organization on this website: I try to keep academic material isolated in the Schizogenesis Bibliography. In fact, you can find my more detailed reading notes about Mey’s book there. But since I was learning so much about specific artworks too, I wanted a record of Mey’s artistic references somewhere else—just a list of the works she discusses throughout her book, in order, with brief contextual notes.
It was a tumblr post, since I thought some folks who follow me on tumblr would be interested.
Tumblr censored the post for obscenity.
Does that count as irony? I have a hard time distinguishing.
So, I’ve moved that list here! These are my Annotations on the artworks that Mey references, whereas my more specific reading notes about her ideas will remain separate in the annotated bib.
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