absolutedestiny

I grin at you a little! I like your reading a lot less well than I like my own! *g* For me, its much more problematic if you see West giving voice to the white men, because of the embedded power dynamics; it's the David and Goliath problem. If David beats Goliath, he's a hero. If Goliath beats David, he's a bully; there's no equality possible between them: it will never be a fair fight. In my head, West owned his own voice; as a black man, he has a standing to critique Scarlett and the South in a way the white men don't; in fact, one can almost see him critiquing Scarlett on behalf of black women, who get slammed with all this racist stereotyping all the time: well, lookee here, the queen of the White South is no better. I'm afraid it does matter to me tremendously whether the POV belongs to the white male image or the black male voice.