Butler and complicity
Mar. 4th, 2025 08:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brainwaneAn interesting MetaFilter comment on complicity in Butler's work.
.... in various books where people are forced into bad bargains because the other choice is quite literally to die.
There are a number of feminist books of the seventies/eighties/nineties where the narrator refuses and it more or less works (Fifth Sacred Thing, eg) or where the main character refuses and choses basically to die (Woman On The Edge of Time). I think that if you want to consider American history, you have to consider all the people who for whatever reason didn't refuse because they wanted to live.....
There are a number of feminist books of the seventies/eighties/nineties where the narrator refuses and it more or less works (Fifth Sacred Thing, eg) or where the main character refuses and choses basically to die (Woman On The Edge of Time). I think that if you want to consider American history, you have to consider all the people who for whatever reason didn't refuse because they wanted to live.....
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