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   From: Omixochitl2002@yahoo.com   
      
   ghost  wrote in   
   news:ghostGARBAGE-F83406.23522421042004@news-central.ash.giganews.com:   
      
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   >  Carolyn S Tysor  wrote:   
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   >>         I'm writing about cultural reproduction in Stephenson's The   
   >> Diamond Age.   
   >> I'm trying to make the argument that the primer replaced Nell's   
   >> cultural education by causing the way she thought about and responded   
   >> to her environment to be radically different from the rest of her   
   >> community.  I'm also trying to weave in the necessity of the author   
   >> of cultural reproduction being female, or at least having a female   
   >> component.  That's how I'm working Miranda, the ractor/surrogate   
   >> mother figure in, anyway.  I want to say because it's reproduction,   
   >> it must have a female author.   
   >>         I'm really excited about this, because I've never had the   
   >> opportunity to analyze literature like this academically, and I think   
   >> it should occupy a much larger portion of the critical literature   
   >> than it currently does.   
   >   
   > post it when you're done if you want. We'd read it.   
      
   I second the nomination.  :)   
      
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