Status Updates From Woman, Native, Other: Writi...

So dense…

Dense. I plan to take some comprehensive notes.

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Clear expression, often equated with correct expression, has long been the criterion set forth in treatises on rhetoric, whose aim was to order discourse so as to persuade. (…) Clarity is a means of subjection, a quality both of official, taught language and of correct writing, two old mates of power: together they flow, together they flowers, vertically, to impose an order.
pg 16

update 1/2

Nothing could be more normative, more logical, and more authoritarian than, for example, the (politically) revolutionary poetry or prose that speaks of revolution in the form of commands or in the well-behaved, steeped-in-convention-language of “clarity.”

“‘One cannot grow fine flowers in a thin soil.’ (Woolf) Substantial creative achievements demands not necessarily genius, but acumen, bent, persistence, time. And time, in the framework of industrial development, means a wage that admits of leisure and living conditions that do not require that writing be incessantly interrupted, deferred, denied, at any rate subordinated to family responsibilities.”