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Predictable Controversy: Woman Writes Book
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"?
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"?