Actually I did send a personal message to David about issues of queer
identity in Trouble, which I guess I should have posted, even though it
repeated some things I had praised the book for previously. I will copy
it to the list.
Re Storm Constantine: I was both fascinated and repelled by the Wraethru
series. The portrayals of both men and women were offensive to me (the
few women in it). And the sexual violence of the gay male tribes. In
both this series and the monstrous "Monstrous Regiment" she writes about
interesting subjects but then seems to have a limited social imagination,
unable to escape offensive stereotypes.
Robin Gordon
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"I am the wall with the womanly swagger."
Judy Grahn
On Fri, 23 May 1997, farah mendlesohn wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 1997 13:16:53 -0400 David Silver wrote:
> I may be behind on reading the mailings at the moment, but nobody
> seems to have stated the obvious about Trouble and Her Friends. It
> is a novel about marginality and some of that marginality is sexual. I
> liked it because it is a lesbian novel (and one that doesn't waste time
> talking about coming out). Tackle this head on, not as a side issue.
> BTW, do you include Storm Constantine? Her stuff disturbs me but it
> contrasts well with Gibson.
>
> I think the novel will work but my one word of warning is that whilst
> my students have struggled with the more difficult sf texts we did this
> term, it remains the case that Delany's Time Considered as a Helix
> of Semi-Precious Stones, which they really had trouble with,
> produced one of the best seminars, whereas Gibson's Johnny
> Mnemonic, which they could follow easily, bombed.
> Farah
> ps. at last, a groups of students who don't think Gibson is great!
>
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