Friday, February 25, 2011
Stardust
We started discussing Stardust by Neil Gaiman during class but went off topic and had to stop. I would like to go back off topic here. I read this novel about a year ago after watching the movie. I normally enjoy the book more than the movie but this was a rare case where I didn't. I found the story to be unintentionally misogynistic. The love story to me was unbelievable because what girl in her right mind would settle for being someone's second choice?! The protagonist is a remarkably unremarkable character who I doubt would ever be smart enough to complete this quest and who treats the star poorly and yet at the end she falls completely in love with him. Did this bother anyone else? Other thoughts?
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I didn't realize how negative I sounded. I feel like I need to say something nice to offset that post. I really did enjoy the storyline. I thought it was original. My problem was in a few of the details.
This is a link to the planned essay collection Death, Desire, Fury, and Delirium: Feminism in the Worlds of Neil Gaiman (McFarland, 2012). I'm not sure an interrogation of unintentional misogyny in Stardust is quite what the editors had in mind -- but you certainly could submit a proposal, and see what happens ...
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