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shredsandpatches · 6 years ago

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man, I wish I hadn’t read the latest round of notes on the Poe orangutan post because now I know how many tumblr users now think the purpose of academia is covering up/denying that your faves are racist*

(and yes, I KNOW THERE IS SYSTEMIC EVERY KIND OF ISM IN ACADEMIA, I am not flaunting my ignorance, I’m just saying. People discuss the metaphorical orangutan -- not necessarily the exact one in Poe -- ALL THE TIME. About 75% of professional Shakespeare studies is about how Shakespeare was every single kind of *ist and people get into Shakespeare studies because they like Shakespeare)

*or gay, but the orangutan post wasn’t about that

#i also wonder what the hell kind of conference that is #because the post talks about poe scholars who look for secret codes in his work and like #i don't know if serious literary scholars do that in any field #(as opposed to crackpots who think francis bacon was shakespeare or something which nobody does these days)#as i said somewhere on the actual orangutan post though #a lot of stuff aims for opposition to racism but reproduces a lot of questionable assumptions #this is a well-known phenomenon

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