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<DIV>If Daisy were mixed race, then Woolf might appear less racist and “Mrs.
Dalloway” more “inclusive”. If only . . .</DIV>
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<DIV>There’s nothing wrong with the students’ question, for, as the years go by,
Woolf’s social world – the world she took for granted – becomes more remote, and
therefore needs more and more explication. Of course, it may be
stimulating and informative and educative to discuss this mixed-race
possibility, slipping off at a tangent from MD.</DIV>
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<DIV>What I object to is an open-ended answer: “Why, one might ask,
<I>should</I> we assume Daisy is white?” Because not to do so is ripping
the text apart to suit your own agenda, or to cater to the susceptibilities of
your audience. Perhaps you are imagining Woolf writing for an audience 100
years after publication: everyone will assume Daisy is white for 100 years, and
then readers will realise what she was really getting at. If someone in
1920s London told you that a friend was visiting from Jamaica, you would have
assumed the friend to be white; you would have expected it to be specifically
mentioned if s/he was black.</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=staveley@stanford.edu>Alice
E. Staveley</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 3, 2022 1:59 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com>Stuart N. Clarke</A>
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<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vwoolf] Flipping the script on Virginia
Woolf</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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Stuart,
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<DIV>While I have deliberated responding <I>en groupe </I>to this message, I
think it’s important to note that every year I teach <I>Mrs Dalloway</I> someone
asks me whether Daisy could be mixed race (Eurasian an outdated term to their
ears). This is not naive reading or willful ignorance, but because there
is sufficient textual ambiguity (<I>pace</I> your bullet points) around Daisy’s
identity and role in the novel — a novel all about the deep human costs of
categorical boxes that deleteriously hem in people’s lives — that I take their
readings as teachable moments. </DIV>
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<DIV>Textual ambiguity is a wonderful place to start unpacking all those thorny
questions about representation, including racial, sexual, gendered, and class
segregations, alongside their historical roots. Why, one might ask,
<I>should</I> we assume Daisy is white? Statistically, as you note, that’s
more probable, but then again those statistics themselves have a history
students need to learn in the context of colonialist fears about Englishmen
going to India without wives to keep them ‘honest’. </DIV>
<DIV>This can open up a rich seam of discussion about other legal and cultural
prohibitions and prescriptions against miscegenation in the era, along with the
general interrogation of the ‘marriage plot' in <I>Mrs Dalloway</I>.
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<DIV>Given my students’ responses, it is not to me surprising that a
contemporary Australian writer of Goan-Anglo Indian heritage might herself be
inspired to find in creative adaptation of Woolf’s famous novel a form of
reinterpretation that is more than mercenary. I have not read her book,
but I believe, as I think the spirit of your later messages imply, it could help
us all take a hard look at just how limiting are fixed categorical boxes,
however much the 'nightmare of history’ reminds us of their continuing
presence.</DIV>
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<DIV>Best wishes</DIV>
<DIV>Alice</DIV>
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<DIV>Alice Staveley, D.Phil.<BR>Senior Lecturer <BR>Department of
English<BR>Stanford University<BR>Director | Honors English<BR>Director |
Digital Humanities Minor<BR>Co-Founder <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.modernistarchives.com__;!!KGKeukY!xF03LOwicM2IHznKeeA9W9ZM8MRKBYez-JINFsimVnOQzT0SP7_aawcOOfck2Tszjz7bNTQ9wSAlxueVm_xqHY4ulKZHRPh3vg$">http://www.modernistarchives.com</A><BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>On May 2, 2022, at 2:49 AM, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf
<<A>vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</A>> wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV>!-------------------------------------------------------------------|<BR>This
Message Is From an External Sender<BR>This message came from outside your
organization.<BR>|-------------------------------------------------------------------!<BR><BR>Dear
oh dear oh dear. So Daisy is a Eurasian, is she? I expect
the author was tempted by the ref. to Daisy's being "very dark" - and ran with
it. Shall we speculate on how many Eurasians were publicly married to majors
in the Indian Army at that time? Daisy doesn't seem to be ostracised,
since there are refs. to Majors Orde and Simmons (or is he her husband? the
author thinks so). Peter Walsh has confided in Mrs Burgess in India, who
has pointed out the disadvantages of his marrying Daisy, but she has made no
ref. to the enormous additional problems he would face in marrying a divorced
mixed-race woman.<BR><BR>Instead of "There’s something wonderfully subversive
about taking a well-known Western text and flipping it inside out to reveal
societal truths", it's sounds more like piggy-backing on Woolf to sell copies
of this (fantasy) novel.<BR><BR>Stuart<BR><BR>-----Original Message----- From:
Kristin Czarnecki via Vwoolf<BR>Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2022 10:04 PM<BR>To:
Virginia Woolf<BR>Subject: [Vwoolf] Flipping the script on Virginia
Woolf<BR><BR>!-------------------------------------------------------------------|<BR>This
Message Is From an External Sender<BR>This message came from outside your
organization.<BR>|-------------------------------------------------------------------!<BR><BR>A
new book explores the character of Daisy from
MD.<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR><BR>Kristin<BR><BR><A
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