Perhaps we were... my comments were based on a
response to Al Gore winning the Peace prize, Doris
Lessing winning the Literature prize... talk about
excellent lobbying, marketing and a political agenda
geared to glorify a certain type of person. Sorry, the
Buddhist monks who protest for peace the world over,
the man who founded the Chipko movement, all of these
deserve recognition... thank heavens for the Magsaysay
award, this way the South has a way of recognising its
own.

Doris Lessing was fine for a certain era, but we have
thankfully moved past her brand of 'feminism' and
'science fiction'. The rest of the world has
unbelievable literature, perhaps it's time the
literary world awoke and got literate!

Cheers
Ujwala


--- Katherine G <Kgotthardt at comcast.net> wrote:


> OOOPS!  Sorry!  I thought we were supposed to

> comment on Doris.  My

> apologies!

> 

> Katherine Mercurio Gotthardt

> 

> 

> 

> 

> 

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: povertyracewomen-bounces at nifl.gov

> [mailto:povertyracewomen-bounces at nifl.gov]On Behalf

> Of Ujwala Samant

> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 10:29 AM

> To: The Poverty, Race,Women and Literacy Discussion

> List

> Subject: [PovertyRaceWomen 1345] Re: Apartheid

> 

> 

> Thank you for not discussing the Nobel prizes,

> especially Doris Lessing. More racist and unfair

> than

> them is harder to accept in this day and age. There

> is

> literature, revolutionary literature, peace

> activists,

> outside of the narrow band of people who seem to

> receive them. Unfortunately, they lack the marketing

> and lobbying that the winners seem to have.

> 

> With thanks,

> Ujwala

> --- Andrea Wilder <andreawilder at comcast.net> wrote:

> 

> > No, I'm not going to talk about Doris Lessing, who

> > got a Nobel prize.

> >

> > This is about the female professor (Black

> American)

> > who had a noose

> > hanging from eh office door...

> >

> > "As an undergraduate and master's student at

> Xavier

> > University in New

> > Orleans, Dr. Constantine noticed that psychology

> > textbooks tended to

> > lump WOMEN, POOR PEOPLE, BLACK PEOPLE AND DISABLED

> > PEOPLE under the

> > umbrella 'disadvantaged populations'."  (p.A23)

> >

> > Then--"I want to be able to change some of the

> > text."

> >

> > So...should we women have our own list serv?

> >

> > Andrea>

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