![]() The personae we adopt, the degree to which we use lives already ripped off and violated by our own culture, the problem of racist stereotyping in every white head, the issue of the writer’s power, right, obligation to speak for others denied a voice, or the writer’s duty to shut up at times or at least to make room for those who can speak with more immediate authority. A risky undertaking, and it betrays the failures and clumsiness of such a position. This is a white woman’s attempt – respectful, I believe – to speak through a Black woman’s voice. “‘The creative energy of patriarchy is fast running out what remains is its self-generating energy for destruction.’ ‘“Identity” became a synonym for “safe space” in which alikeness rather than difference could be explored.’ Elizabeth’s Bishop’s poem about Billie Holiday, ‘Songs for a Coloured Singer’, is called out for appropriation in 1983: “Adrienne Rich’s poems speak so strongly to the current zeitgeist (dating from, say, the Occupy movement through #MeToo to Black Lives Matter) that it’s astounding – no, instructive – to realise they were written twenty, forty, fifty years ago:” ![]() ![]() ![]() On the Talmud and life – Ange Mlinko in LRB: ![]()
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