Unreliable Truth: On Memoir & Memory by Maureen Murdock Murdock muses that she writes in an effort to disentangle her voice from the grip of…
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Unreliable Truth (II of IV)
Unreliable Truth: On Memoir & Memory by Maureen Murdock I believe there are as many different truths as there are people to hold them, and…
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Unreliable Truth: On Memoir & Memory by Maureen Murdock Fact can exist without human intelligence but truth cannot. — Toni Morrison For a piece of…
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Ordinarily I write my postings for this blog several weeks, or at least days, in advance. I do this because I suppose I’m a bit…
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On the other hand, heroically doing the right thing is important to Karen Chance’s heroine, Cassandra Palmer. Perhaps because she remembers what it is to…
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Oddly enough, in Midnight’s Daughter (Karen Chance’s story of a “dhampir” or half-vampire), Dorina Basarab is specifically a killer — a bounty hunter for the…
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I believe it’s reasonable to therefore conclude that personal independence is at the very least a necessary marker on the Heroine’s Journey. Further, the struggle…
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I will make one personal caveat before I start: despite much screeching and near-hysterical insistence that “man” automatically equates to (or conflates with) “human,” the…
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In the end, however, I found myself as turned off by Murdock’s supposed “heroine’s journey” as I was by Campbell’s vision of women. This is…
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When I was a child we spent several years in Spain. I remember being stuck one summer in an old country house with family and…
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