ASIA 254 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Ganguro, Anti-Realism, Wish Fulfillment
Document Summary
Moved to alaska with husband and began writing there. Contact with an indigenous community in alaska. Witches must have once been babies and maidens. Young ones appear as cranes, foxes, snowy herons, other beasts or birds. Tragic lives, which turn them into mountain witches. Why a witch to present women"s experience. Snow maiden does not kill her husband. Power to read others" minds, thus able to control the situation. Her relationship with husband is described as mother and child. Control over child and thus control over husband. Sister is a painter who paints some of her book cover. Inspired by a rabbit skins nailed to the door of a store and a dream about rabbits. Critiques dominant forms of feminism of the 70s. Hollow objects as a symbol for womb. City as a materialization of earlier repressions. Recognized for its formal techniques that involve juxtaposition of seemingly unrelated objects. An effort to find the strangeness in everyday.
