cruisedirector: (devilviggo)
cruisedirector ([personal profile] cruisedirector) wrote in [personal profile] ealgylden 2003-10-23 01:15 pm (UTC)

Okay, but that is not what your rantlet SAID. It said that you wanted the book to be banned, and even assuming you were joking, the idea that you want the feminist revision taken away from the so-called "teenys" until they have been properly force-fed the overwhelmingly patriarchal-based versions of the story (which you are privileging as a more authentic and vital version, when I think it's debatable that either the relevance of or the interest in Arthurian mythology has anything to do with British history or narrative development).

And I am now giggling at the idea that poor Arthur, Gawain, Galahad, etc. have been so "marginalized" by Bradley that they must be resurrected and given their due. I did not grow up with MoA; I grew up with T.H. White and 'Camelot' and Vixen Morgan le Fay and Bimbo Guinevere, who show up in various forms in hundreds and hundreds of other stories. If the price for Bradley's Morgaine and Viviane is that a teenage girl somewhere might not wish to see a movie focused on Arthur...all I can say is wow, five thousand years of women's stories appropriated into patriarchal history, and finally someone manages to reclaim one for women! Go MZB!

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