![]() ![]() Legacy, outsider-ism, choice, American vs British politics, sexual politics, and criticism and the nature of art. ![]() Normally I give a quick bullet points of what we discuss in the episode, but it's here that I have to say: we discuss everything. Sylvia Plath scholar Emily Van Duyne is here to discuss the complex and interlinked legacies of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.ĬONTENT WARNINGS: suicide (obviously), physical abuse, adultery. Garp's sexual affairs and impolitic demeanor leads to the early demise of several characters. Garp is raised at an all-boys boarding school my his controlling mother, becomes a champion wrestler, marries the coach's daughter, Helen, and goes on to become a writer, in the footsteps of his mother, who penned a best-selling feminist treatise. After becoming a nurse during WWII, she rapes a dying man and gives birth to a son, whom she names after the man who fathered him– Technical Sergeant Garp. Jenny Fields is the daughter of a well-to-do New England family who wants to become a mother, but never a wife. This week, Malavika joins us to discuss some 1970s wackiness with John Irving's most famous novel, THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP. CW: Rape, self-mutilation, adultery, racism, transphobia ![]()
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