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Self v. Self's Racism, part 1
Mar. 16th, 2007 12:54 pmI think I love bell hooks.
I'm reading "Killing Rage: Ending Racism" now, and every page is a delight. This is a woman much much sharper than the average bear. She makes the inside of my head itch in a good way. It is going to affect the Novel a bit, I think. Poor Keaton is not nearly angry enough in current drafts.
Also, I am going to have to think Very Critically on revisions, because I fall into all sorts of easy traps for the vague white mind I've got. Like only after reading the first few chapters of Ms. hooks book did I remember that in the scene I just wrote, I had some behave totally passively (like an object) when NO WAY would that ever happen in the world I myself set up. This guy would not be sidelined by some other dude, he would be So Outta There! Why? Because as subjects not objects, every secondary character is supposed to have their own agenda. Especially as one thing I'm supposed to be highlighting here is agency, and the subject/object concept.
More specifically: I've set it up so the slaves have nifty magic powers, and have made it clear that they are constantly actively trying to escape, and are kept in slavery only by constant magical monitoring by an evil guild, so if there's no monitors around, any slave in the story is going to make for the hills, either literally or through work towards freeing self / others. Which doesn't include *sitting on the stairs because somebody told them to*
In my defense, I just got distracted because I was focusing on the Main Characters Big Argument, but still. Tragic and inexcusable. I think he contacted the resistance and they came and carried him off while I (and the narrator) weren't paying attention. That's my story and I'm sticking to it for now.
I'm reading "Killing Rage: Ending Racism" now, and every page is a delight. This is a woman much much sharper than the average bear. She makes the inside of my head itch in a good way. It is going to affect the Novel a bit, I think. Poor Keaton is not nearly angry enough in current drafts.
Also, I am going to have to think Very Critically on revisions, because I fall into all sorts of easy traps for the vague white mind I've got. Like only after reading the first few chapters of Ms. hooks book did I remember that in the scene I just wrote, I had some behave totally passively (like an object) when NO WAY would that ever happen in the world I myself set up. This guy would not be sidelined by some other dude, he would be So Outta There! Why? Because as subjects not objects, every secondary character is supposed to have their own agenda. Especially as one thing I'm supposed to be highlighting here is agency, and the subject/object concept.
More specifically: I've set it up so the slaves have nifty magic powers, and have made it clear that they are constantly actively trying to escape, and are kept in slavery only by constant magical monitoring by an evil guild, so if there's no monitors around, any slave in the story is going to make for the hills, either literally or through work towards freeing self / others. Which doesn't include *sitting on the stairs because somebody told them to*
In my defense, I just got distracted because I was focusing on the Main Characters Big Argument, but still. Tragic and inexcusable. I think he contacted the resistance and they came and carried him off while I (and the narrator) weren't paying attention. That's my story and I'm sticking to it for now.
