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46b. Bonus: Anna Wilson on Bear.
I see Bear as a story about a woman who gets the chance to do to someone
else what has always been done to her.... She breaks out of her
experience of heterosexual relationships by having this exploitative
relationship with the bear.
Anna Wilson completed her PhD in
medieval studies in 2015 at the University of Toronto. She is now an assistant
professor of English at Harvard University . She works on medieval reading
communities, fanfiction, critical theory, historiography, and the history of
reading. Next year she’s heading to the Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton, NJ, for a year to finish her first book, which is about fans,
reading, immaturity, and medieval literature.
Anna joins Suzanne and Chris to talk about
Bear and its relationship to other
texts—in particular, feminist young adult fantasy novels.
Show Notes.
Anna’s article “Full Body
Reading”, on the connections between fanfiction and medieval mystic
Margery Kempe, is well worth reading.
Anna is also one of the contributors (along with Chris and Suzanne) to the
open-access collection How We Read.
Robin McKinley:
Deerskin. Pegasus.
Mercedes Lackey.
Marion Zimmer Bradley.
Tamora Pierce.
Suzy McKee Charnas:
Motherlines.
Kathryn Bond Stockton: The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in Twentieth
Century.
Audre Lorde: Zami: A New Spelling of My Name.
Grizzly Man.
Ursula K. LeGuin: The Left Hand of Darkness.
On shifter romances.
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I see Bear as a story about a woman who gets the chance to do to someone
else what has always been done to her.... She breaks out of her
experience of heterosexual relationships by having this exploitative
relationship with the bear.
Anna Wilson completed her PhD in
medieval studies in 2015 at the University of Toronto. She is now an assistant
professor of English at Harvard University . She works on medieval reading
communities, fanfiction, critical theory, historiography, and the history of
reading. Next year she’s heading to the Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton, NJ, for a year to finish her first book, which is about fans,
reading, immaturity, and medieval literature.
Anna joins Suzanne and Chris to talk about
Bear and its relationship to other
texts—in particular, feminist young adult fantasy novels.
Show Notes.
Anna’s article “Full Body
Reading”, on the connections between fanfiction and medieval mystic
Margery Kempe, is well worth reading.
Anna is also one of the contributors (along with Chris and Suzanne) to the
open-access collection How We Read.
Robin McKinley:
Deerskin. Pegasus.
Mercedes Lackey.
Marion Zimmer Bradley.
Tamora Pierce.
Suzy McKee Charnas:
Motherlines.
Kathryn Bond Stockton: The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in Twentieth
Century.
Audre Lorde: Zami: A New Spelling of My Name.
Grizzly Man.
Ursula K. LeGuin: The Left Hand of Darkness.
On shifter romances.
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