On Thu, 22 May 1997, John Ransom wrote:
> And there's also The Who's rock-opera, "Tommy." It doesn't have anything
> to do with Foucault, but it does sort of poetically deal with the issue of
> silence; society's attempt to overcome that silence; society's
> valorization of, envy of, censoriousness towards those who keep silent;
> the medical profession's desire to cure it, and so on. But perhaps
> something like this flies too low to make it onto your radar screen.
for some reason that reminds me of another one - the scene in kingston's
_woman warrior_ where the protagonist tortures her classmate in the girls'
room, trying to get her to speak.
sig http://pages.nyu.edu/~scs7891
> And there's also The Who's rock-opera, "Tommy." It doesn't have anything
> to do with Foucault, but it does sort of poetically deal with the issue of
> silence; society's attempt to overcome that silence; society's
> valorization of, envy of, censoriousness towards those who keep silent;
> the medical profession's desire to cure it, and so on. But perhaps
> something like this flies too low to make it onto your radar screen.
for some reason that reminds me of another one - the scene in kingston's
_woman warrior_ where the protagonist tortures her classmate in the girls'
room, trying to get her to speak.
sig http://pages.nyu.edu/~scs7891