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Final project idea
March 3, 2015 | 1 Comment
Hi all,
I just finished reading I Love Dick, an astonishing memoir/novel/series of feminist essays by Chris Kraus. The story centers on Kraus’s obsession with an unattainable male figure at the periphery of her life. She describes her lengthy pursuit of him in cringe-worthy detail. Her husband ambivalently consents to the affair. Eventually she moves alone to upstate New York to sort out her future. At one point she travels abroad. In the process she identifies her true professional identity. Sound familiar?? And yet, this memoir offers so much of what we wanted and didn’t get from Cleaving: self-reflection, personal growth, narrative structure, artistry, implications for the culture at large… A comparison of the two could make for a great final project. I’m not going to do it, but anyone else is free to grab this idea if it’s interesting to them.
— Destry
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This sounds like a compelling finally project indeed. I had heard about Kraus’s book and now I am motivated to read it–and maybe it would be something I could assign in future iterations of this course.