Am I a bad female scholar, in that I'm not particularly interested in feminist criticism? Seriously, being both a woman and literary scholar, I sometimes feel like I'm almost expected to be fixated on the representation of women in whatever text I'm looking at. But I really, honestly, don't care... not that I don't think it's an important area, just that it's not my thing. That and it's really been done to death. Postcolonial theory, that's where it's at.
(NB: Remember I don't mean any sort of political1 meaning of the word "feminist." In literary criticism, it simply means "looking at the way women are represented.")
1: That is, insofar as anything to do with literature can be apolitical.
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