#anti-blackness in academia

[kimyoonmiauthor]

Literary theorists being AHs to women and PoCs

‘cause if I have to suffer, then you should also know how much of an AH these people are, so you can examine if their theories are even worth believing or if you SHOULD pay attention to their blind spots instead of saying it’s irrelevant to literary discussion. Personally, I think the fact they are unwilling to mention PoCs, particularly Black people and willing to actively dump on women is very relevant to current academic discourse. You can’t ignore Kant’s views on women, and see that the majority of the people who won in the end were people who showed hatred towards women.

Robert Scholes being an AH, Page 26-page 28 (Hilarious, but also homophobic and misogynistic) For context, EM Forster is gay, which makes this really homophobic.

Picture credit: https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/2017-03-03/memories-of-bob-scholes

‘Cause you see folks, the only decent writers in the world are men, cishet men. (notice the sharp sarcasm here).

E.M. Forster on Gertrude Stein (From Aspects of a Novel, a series of lectures he gave)

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https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70492/pg70492-images.html

Granted, a Modernist (and gay himself, openly so at the time he gave this lecture), but still, the dumping on Gertrude Stein seems to be a tradition that extends to other people afterwards (Rowe did it sideways, Lajos Egri, directly). Seriously? Dump on the lesbian Jew trying to encourage ways to describe TRAUMA. OMG, we shouldn’t talk about trauma.

But I disagree heartily--we have entire story structures devoted to dreams that play with sense of time and reality *because* of Gertrude Stein. I mean, how could you conceivably get Inception without Gertrude Stein’s theories of how to move language and time? Besides that, you have Dream Diaries (Japanese), Dream Record (First Chinese then Korean--not imported into Japan because there was a war), and then the whole of Dream Time from Aboriginals which predate her. Non-linear storytelling has and can work--but you need thematic plotting to be stronger and tone plotting to really be tight (pacing helps, but isn’t as critical as the other two). Thank the Modernists for the European white version. I mean, Magic realism, anyone???

If you want to find ways to break linear time and describe trauma itself, and the feeling of missing time--Modernists are your best bet to find techniques to get you there. (Kinda Post Modernists, though I resent the focus on readers a lot--I heartily disagree, BTW, that Structuralists and Post Modernists are the same thing... as argued in this paper here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B0080430767039516. 

Post Modernists tried to find further ways to break the rules and structure by bending to the reader. 

Structuralists tried to impose a bunch of rules and binary. Like say, the panopticon and prison system/School system. There’s rigidity everywhere with Structuralists and Eurocentricism.) Or as the Raw and Cooked put it, a binary of acceptable and unacceptable, when some cultures don’t work off the Bible. So I think this paper here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B0080430767039516

is more likely.

John Gardner, The Art of Fiction for Young Writers, published 1983

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No one is surprised that its all men mentioned, right? 

But what makes ignoramuses bad writers is not just their inexperience in fair argument. All great writing is in a sense imitation of great writing. Writing a novel, however innovative that novel may be, the writer struggles to achieve one specific large effect, what can only be called the effect we are used to getting from good novels. However weird the technique, whatever the novel’s mode, we say when we have finished it, “Now that is a novel!” We say it of Anna Karenina and of Under the Volcano, also of the mysteriously constructed Moby-Dick. If we say it of Samuel Beckett’s Watt or Malone Dies, of Italo Calvino’s The Baron in the Trees, or Kobo Abe’s The Ruined Map, we say it because, for all their surface oddity, those novels produce the familiar effect. It rarely happens, if it happens at all, that a writer can achieve effects much larger than the effects achieved in books he has read and admired. Human beings, like chimpanzees, can do very little without models. One may learn to love Shakespeare by reading him on one’s own—the ignoramus is unlikely to have done even this—but there is no substitute for being taken by the hand and guided line by line through Othello, Hamlet, or King Lear. This is the work of the university Shakespeare course, and even if the teacher is a person of limited intelligence and sensitivity, one can find in universities the critical books and articles most likely to be helpful, the books that have held up, and the best of the new books. Outside the university’s selective process, one hardly knows which way to turn. One ends up with some crank book on how Shakespeare was really an atheist, or a Communist, or a pen-name used by Francis Bacon. Outside the university it seems practically impossible to come to an understanding of Homer or Vergil, Chaucer or Dante, any of the great masters who, properly understood, provide the highest models yet achieved by our civilization. Whatever his genius, the writer unfamiliar with the highest effects possible is virtually doomed to search out lesser effects.

Gardner, John (2010-05-20T23:58:59.000). The Art of Fiction . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

OMG, give this guy a prize, he managed to mention a Japanese man Kobo Abe. /s https://literariness.org/2019/04/15/analysis-of-kobo-abes-novels/ But then fails to mention the names of the authors of some of the novels he’s talking about (I’m literally begging Writer’s Digest, Knopf, etc to force these people to give better citations)

The closest he gets to noting a Black person is noting American Jazz on the page where Chapter 2 starts, and then fails to mention Jazz musicians. No, I’m serious. What makes a person an AH? The inability to mention a single work in 1983 by a female author?

Though the fact is not always obvious at a glance when we look at works of art very close to us in time, the artist’s primary unit of thought—his primary conscious or unconscious basis for selecting and organizing the details of his work—is genre. This is perhaps most obvious in the case of music. A composer writes an opera, a symphony, a concerto, a tone poem, a suite of country dances, a song cycle, a set of variations, or a stream-of-consciousness piece (a modern psychological adaptation of the tone poem). Whatever genre he chooses, and to some extent depending on which genre he chooses, he writes within, or slightly varies, traditional structures—sonata form, fugal structure, ABCBA melodic structure, and so forth; or he may create, on what he believes to be some firm basis, a new structure. He may cross genres, introducing country dances into a symphony or, say, constructing a string quartet on the principle of theme and variations. If he’s looking for novelty (seldom for any more noble reason), he may try to borrow structure from some other art, using film, theatrical movement, or something else. When new forms arise, as they do from time to time, they rise out of one of two processes, genre-crossing or the elevation of popular culture. Thus Ravel, Gershwin, Stravinsky, and many others blend classical tradition and American jazz—in this case simultaneously crossing genres and elevating the popular. Occasionally in music as in the other arts, elevating popular culture must be extended to mean recycling trash. Electronic music began in the observation that the beeps and boings that come out of radios, computers, and the like might sound a little like music if structure were imposed—rhythm and something like melody. Anything, in fact—as the Dadaists, Spike Jones, and John Cage pointed out—might be turned into something like music: the scream of a truck-tire, the noise of a windowshade, the bleating of a sheep.

Gardner, John (2010-05-20T23:58:59.000). The Art of Fiction . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Iunno, is it glaring to you? It’s glaring to me. Avoid talking about Black people challenge. I can name at least a few off the top of my head. Dizzy Gillespie? Billie Holiday? Ella Fitzgerald? And then he mentions white people before then? I’m groaning.

And that’s the thing, particularly about Black authors/Black people, they are either not mentioned by name, but their work is--WTF, or totally skipped, probably because the whole of Black literature goes against these white men’s structuralism, and postulations. On one hand, I’m glad they left them alone, but on the other, the saying this is the only way, while glaringly missing the obvious really is sickening.

As for dumping on women--well... should we go back to Aristotle being an ass and starting the whole anti-choice campaigns because somehow Aristotle is Jesus, even though Jesus didn’t say anything about Ensoulment at conception? And then indoctrinated white women trying to rescue Aristotle from taking the axe because all of his scientific ideas were wrong? (Just axe him--he was popular with the Victorians for a reason--he was a misogynistic asshole and that reinforced their worldview very well.) (And if you think I don’t have references for the anti-choice statement... oh wait for it... I so have it)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensoulment Wikipedia, but I found scholarly articles too--not sure you want to be buried with that. Aristotle is not Jesus. !@#$ And Aristotle thought women got their soul later than men, because, as I said, royal asshole, to the point I want to do a whole long rant about how much of an irrelevant ah he was.

[livingmydreamlife5555]

When i get more MHA and shifting tiktoks after affirming that I'm already in my dr >>>>>>

But it doesn't matter cause I'm already in my dr. And my 3D reflects instantly all the time

[stargirl273]

Remus: *reading his book in the library*

Remus: *Hears soft classical music in the distance*

Regulus: *Reading a table next to him, having his earphones on full volume*

Remus: James, do you hear that to?

James: Oh, the classical music? That is reggie. He loves that kind of music

Remus: *Walks up to Regulus* What song is that?

Regulus: Oh, just Solas from Jamie Duffie. Don't think you know it.

Remus: *stares at him* That's my favorite classical song.

Regulus and Remus: *Dark academy fangirls squealing*

Sirius: *just walked in to the library* Is that my brother? And my boyfriend? Bonding?

[flowersforfrancis]

I'll take that as a challenge.

[amiivrse]

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[itscontinental]

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[brandokisser]

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B&W version comic pages wip

[justanisabelakinnie]

I think if I never have to hear Attack on Titan, My Hero Academia, The Promised Neverland, and Puella Magi Madoka Magica recommended as “good/outstanding/feminist” works of media for anime newcomers to check out ever again, then I can finally, finally, FINALLY fucking die in peace.

[hazy-daydreamer]

Moodboard based on eri from my hero academia

Made by our fictive so is self indulgent

[hussyknee]

[livingmydreamlife5555]

LMAO just saw another YouTuber talking about shifting, and once again they get all their information on tiktok. @/edvasin or something like that. I watched some of his videos before, but I didn't expect him to make one about shifting.

But at the end of the day, they get all their info from TIKTOK, an unreliable source 🤷🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️. I don't even feel nervous or doubtful, and I didn't even get 10 minutes into it. Probably just some more bashing on shifting cause they get all their "research" from tiktok and they always talk about how everyone and their mama is shifting to hogwarts. It's too funny atp

Anyways, they'll probably never look here 🤣

[maxellminidisc]

The way other nb Latines (and non black people in general) on this site stay calling Black people (and mind you not only Black people in the US) "yankee" and shit for their upset... why not just be direct and refer EXACTLY to who and what you're refering to without being a pussy....

Like in reference to debate on the Motaz video possibly being taken out of context or mistranslated, most of the people I saw upset were Sudanese as well, not just Black Americans. It's not some great fucking conspiracy of "cancel culture" to come to the possible conclusion of antiblackness when your community is consistently used as the worlds fucking punching bag despite many of us as nb poc denying that and perpetuating that behavior.

Plus multiple of the people I saw addressing this never said Motaz deserves anything bad happening to him, or talked about dismissing his experiences, work, advocacy for his people or that of all Palestinians, or talked about throwing him to the wolves or whatever. They simply were just expressing dissapointment or reminding people of the importance of Black and Palestinian solidarity despite the issue. But to act like Black people collectively got together to "crush" him is fucking insaaanneee.

Like its unfortunate if it was a mistake and its upsetting that it could've caused others to think negatively of him; he doesn't deserve that if so. But being an antiblack loser yourself in your attempt to correct the issue is fucking stupid and disgusting.

Edit: The shit that spurred this has been given some more context as to who made it, so I wont comment further. But I want to keep this up for non black people who will probably and inevitably use the posts I saw that prompted this and the issue with Motaz to perpetuate their own antiblack agenda. That's not your fucking right to come in and use this issue to shit on Black people for their hurt or efforts to address that hurt.

[austin-friars]

twitter writing community was doing too much again, but one of the discussions i absolutely hated was the shaming of people for not reading or obtaining classical literature. there is this idea that if you aren't reading classics, of if you can't read classics (or books modeled off of classical literature, for example like, contemporary classics or historical fiction) then in short, you are an idiot.

enough people made excellent points about how unfair this was to to immigrants, people who spoke english as a second language, people outside of the US, etc. But even in the US, the ability to read classical literature/contemporary classics/historical literature is a privilege that many...many people do not realize. To be taught how to read is one thing, but to be taught how to read complicated texts and literature, and to actually be able to absorb and analyze what you are reading is a skill that is inaccessible to many.

I started reading complex books from a young age, I went to a college prepatory private highschool where it was expected that we were able to read such literature, and then my minor was in English and American lit where I was writing literary analysis daily, pages worth. And that was all a privilege. That was a privilege that my family worked very very hard for me to be able to have, especially given I am Black American, and the power to read wasn't always granted to my ancestors.

THAT ALL SAID, my being able to read this content is still a privilege. My family set me on the path, my family was able to provide me that education. Not everyone in America gets that. There are tons of people living in low income situations that do not have access to this type of literature, that don't have access to learning, schooling, etc., that would teach that. Some teachers just give upon students, some schools don't have funding. In America, Black and Brown kids, in both the elementray and highschool level are still below the national reading average....

The point is, there are so many snobs in these cirlces. One of my favorite series is probable the Wolf Hall series by Hilary Mantel, and if I did not have the education I had, I would not even begin to be able to read it , let alone enjoy it. Let alone COMPREHEND it! Mantel's historical works aren't classical but like many historical fictions, it is heavily modeled off of classical english literature.

The point is be nice to people and don't be a damn snob! You don't know everyone's education, experiences, background.

[tombombadildos]

I do not care about your yt queer theory that goes in ten million pointless circles and across 72 echo chambers and down the shaft of every yt academic circle jerk known to man if you are not talking about anti-Black racism and the rights of Black people in an actionable way, before all and any discussion of queer rights or the rights of any other marginalized group.

[amiivrse]

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