<p>Perhaps strangely, Linda applies <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Feminine-Mystique" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Betty Friedan’s 1963 feminist critique of patriarchal society <em>The Feminine Mystique</em></a>, and specifically the text “The Problem That Has No Name,” to <a href="https://vijaykhurana.com/about/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Passenger Seat </em>by Vijay Khurana</a>. An Australian/British author, Khurana wrote this very fine debut novel about the real-life events of two young men from <a href="https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/timeline-of-triple-murders-committed-by-port-alberni-teen-killers-last-summer-4677932" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Port Alberni, Northern BC</a> and about their toxic masculinity. This novel thus addresses another problem not yet properly identified, except perhaps in more general ways: disaffected or disconnected young men in Western society, who are situated in that space between adolescence and adulthood, and who are making key decisions about who they will become as they mature.</p><br><p>Linda calls upon <a href="https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147911/here-is-a-figure/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sarah Dowling’s very fine study, <em>Here is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form</em></a> to examine how that problem has been represented in literature in terms of upright (radicalized white male) figures and prone or supine figures (victims, casualties, gendered subjects). But<em>The Passenger Seat</em> suggests a posture that is somewhere in-between. And what is that posture and who is implicated? You’ll have to listen to the episode to find out....</p><br><p>Host/Writer: Linda Morra</p><p>Associate Producer: Maia Harris</p><p>Music: Raphael Krux</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

Getting Lit with Linda - The Canadian Literature Podcast

Linda Morra

The Other Problem that Has No Name - The Passenger Seat by Vijay Khurana

NOV 1, 202543 MIN
Getting Lit with Linda - The Canadian Literature Podcast

The Other Problem that Has No Name - The Passenger Seat by Vijay Khurana

NOV 1, 202543 MIN

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<p>Perhaps strangely, Linda applies <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Feminine-Mystique" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Betty Friedan’s 1963 feminist critique of patriarchal society <em>The Feminine Mystique</em></a>, and specifically the text “The Problem That Has No Name,” to <a href="https://vijaykhurana.com/about/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Passenger Seat </em>by Vijay Khurana</a>. An Australian/British author, Khurana wrote this very fine debut novel about the real-life events of two young men from <a href="https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/timeline-of-triple-murders-committed-by-port-alberni-teen-killers-last-summer-4677932" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Port Alberni, Northern BC</a> and about their toxic masculinity. This novel thus addresses another problem not yet properly identified, except perhaps in more general ways: disaffected or disconnected young men in Western society, who are situated in that space between adolescence and adulthood, and who are making key decisions about who they will become as they mature.</p><br><p>Linda calls upon <a href="https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147911/here-is-a-figure/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sarah Dowling’s very fine study, <em>Here is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form</em></a> to examine how that problem has been represented in literature in terms of upright (radicalized white male) figures and prone or supine figures (victims, casualties, gendered subjects). But<em>The Passenger Seat</em> suggests a posture that is somewhere in-between. And what is that posture and who is implicated? You’ll have to listen to the episode to find out....</p><br><p>Host/Writer: Linda Morra</p><p>Associate Producer: Maia Harris</p><p>Music: Raphael Krux</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>