Interview with Matthew Alexander over at READ, What Brief Interviews with Hideous Men can tell us about rape culture, about his recent paper, Engaging with David Foster Wallace’s Hideous Men:
[...]Is Wallace critical of rape culture? Or does he merely represent its existence?
The fact that rape and sexualised violence feature throughout Wallace’s works of fiction could suggest that he is merely noting its existence, but I think the level to which he makes these topics deeply uncomfortable for the reader suggests something more. What Wallace does different to many of his contemporaries is that he provides a widened sense of perspective, and does not just spout dominant rape culture rhetoric.
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