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You might want to take a look at my entry on daisies in the Woolf Herbarium" https://woolfherbarium.blogspot.com/p/di.html As one might expect, Woolf's 42 references to daisies as flowers are quite ambivalent: "Given the dialectical
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https://woolfherbarium.blogspot.com/p/di.html</a> As one might expect, Woolf's 42 references to daisies as flowers are quite ambivalent: "Given the dialectical variety with which Woolf deconstructs the daisy’s attributes -- opening the day’s eye in the dark,
subjecting delicacy to destruction, chaining change -- it should come as no surprise when Woolf turns her irony onto the flower’s gender affiliations."<br>
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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><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 3, 2022 1:59 AM</div>
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<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] Flipping the script on Virginia Woolf</div>
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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.
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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>. </div>
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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>Alice</div>
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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>
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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>
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A new book explores the character of Daisy from MD.<br>
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