Dr. J K Gayle, author of Aristotle’s Feminist Subject has taken me to task for blaming beliefs of private ownership on the Enlightenment. I shall take heed, with a better understanding of genealogy and history next time.
Here is an excerpt from his excellent piece:
“Now when we go back to thinking about Paul as a writer, as a collaborative writer, as not so in authoritative control of his text as an author should be, then can’t we see how we might start thinking about ourselves? If you are not oppressed, or if your parent or your grandparent or your great-grandparent wasn’t, then there’s something going on. Without wanting to side or to take sides, maybe you already have. Then there really are other sides here. Can Paul write something that keeps slaves slaves? That keeps wives submitted and silent? That keeps gays damned? And if you hear that “he” does write these things, that the text does say that, then what?”
See the rest of his post here: Homme Est Mort.
Truth and Peace,
Rod
Rod, Thank you! You’ve certainly got me thinking more about history and chronology. At my blog, you key in on Ishmael Reed. Thanks for that too! After reading Ishmael Reed’s Flight to Canada and what the author does when rendering D. O. Fagunwa’s Igbo Olodumare from Nigerian èdè Yorùbá into American ebonics as “Snake Wars,” I don’t think I’ll ever think about unmixed histories in the same way. But you’ve got me rereading True to Our Native Land, and that again has inspired me to post more today.
Thank you for this conversation. Dr. Gayle.