Jeng...jeng...jeng... My aunt would definitely freak out just by reading the title and that would be a rather interesting scene to observe hahaha...Mesti inside her head she'd be saying:
"Ape lah nak jadi kat anak sedara aku yang sorang ni??" (background music - 'Pening' from Ezlyn and M.D.Kilau - LOL!)
One of the good things that you get from sitting in a postgraduate class is that you re-learn the terms that you're already familiar with and understand it in a new perspective.
So today, I learned that being bisexual is not totally a 'negative' thing. This is (for me) however, applicable only to being bisexual in terms of approaching a literary text (Virginia Woolf's discussion and approach). In this sense, you neither read the text only from a male point of view (feminists claim that we're traditionally taught to read a literary text as male) nor from a feminist angle alone. A combination of both instead.
We had a very interesting discussion on feminism today and L was the one who brought our attention to the bisexual mind of reading a literary text. I guess, it'd be a good point to raise in my paper...the only problem is, I have lots to read before I am able to use this approach in reading literary text as to answer my assignment question. Long journey to go...
Hmm...hope I'll be able to complete all my three assignments on time ;)
Orait peeps, it's bedtime!
Goodnight...
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Interesting... bisexual in reading..
I know there's always difference when a male reads, and when a female reads. They focus on different point of views. Or perhaps they even interprets the text differently. And I guess the greatest distinction would be on the choise of reading materials.
But I just wonder, when a male and a female reads the same text, on what angle would they see it differently?
thAt's a good point...and we had discussed about this in the class, and our brilliant guess was that the feminist theorists have yet to 'show' clearly to us how to read a text from a female point of view kot. i mean, if it's true what they said lah, about readers in general have traditionally been trained to read as male...ntah lah.
maybe if you read 'A Rose For Emily' by Faulkner as a female, you ought to sympathize Emily (who're supressed and dominated by men most of her life) and wouldn't blame her for murdering Homer...but if you're reading from a male perspective, you would probably think Emily is just a wacko and ought to be punished and her background (of being supressed) shouldn't come into consideration - but then again, I'm being judgmental of how a man/woman should think kot. so really, i just dont know :P
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