‘There will be a movement’ threatened Harvey Weinstein, in retaliation to the New York Times article coming out on October 5, 2017 accusing him of over thirty years of sexual predation. There WAS a movement, surely, but not in his support, nothing like he imagined, nothing like anyone could have predicted. The #MeToo movement came…
Tag: Reading
Beauty and The Beholder: A Review of ‘The Bluest Eye’ by Toni Morrison
On the very first page, we are told that Pecola Breedlove, an 11 year old girl with only the desire of seeing the world through blue eyes, is impregnated by her own father, and that Pecola will live and her child will die. “There is really nothing more to say,” writes Morrison, “except why. But…
On the Margins No More: A Review of The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
In The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood gives voice to Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, and her twelve maids who remained voiceless in Homer’s Odyssey. The book alternates chapters between Penelope’s monologues and singing choruses by the twelve hanged maids (by Odysseus). Atwood replays the myths to bring the marginalised into the centre of the narrative. Odysseus…
