Predictable Controversy: Woman Writes Book

[littlerdog.livejournal.com]

The book, with a set piece in which its female narrator-protagonist speeds on a motorbike through the Nevada desert, has opened up some fraught questions. Can a woman write a Great American Novel? Is there such a thing as material more or less suitable to a woman? Can a woman protagonist somehow stand for humanity or just (in Kushner's words) "the eternal rib"?


Let's see.

Can a man write a Great American Novel? Is there such a thing as material more or less suitable to a man? Can a man protagonist somehow stand for humanity or just "the eternal dick"?