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So one thing I was thinking about, in addition to why didn’t I think of in terms of rape culture or why didn’t I think in terms of patriarchy, was: Where did compulsory heterosexuality work on me?
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I was reading some queer theory and for the first time I was reading Adrienne Rich’s Compulsory Heterosexuality it was a huge text for me at that time. Were there challenges with reinhabiting this character during this era with the knowledge you have now, and not being able to really utilize that knowledge in her voice?ĮB: At the time that I decided to write the sequel, I was about a year into my first lesbian relationship with my partner-my life partner. KI: Selin is someone who, like lots of us who were young during that era, is hyper-conscious of how she’s living her life and very capable of and even empowered by articulating her desires-or sometimes lack of desire-but still doesn’t haven’t perfect perspective on everything, because she’s in the middle of it all. I wanted to think about why I wasn’t thinking about it in those terms then and how I was thinking about it instead. We were describing them to ourselves using different words than we had maybe used before, and that really made me want to return to that time and think about some of those issues, about rape culture, and patriarchy, and consent-even though those aren’t words that appear in the book and aren’t words I used at the time.
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It is Batuman’s way of dismantling the way we talk about our desires and our fears, of reimagining the way the world could be-not only when it comes to oral sex, but, you know, that too. If The Idiot could be seen as Batuman’s reflection on what it is to be young, fiercely intelligent, and consciously depoliticized, Either/Or is a step toward Selin’s eventual awakening, a future understanding that the shame that she feels around certain things is being projected upon her, and doesn’t have to exist within her. Also, there’s sex.īatuman remembers being in college and reading Amis’s take on oral sex in The Rachel Papers, how he described it as being a “confrontation with a glistening pouch, redolent of oysters.” When she thought about it again, she says, “more than 20 years had passed, and I was like, Could it really have said that?” A quick Google confirmed that it did, and Selin’s contemplation of that part of The Rachel Papers is a pivotal part of the novel, a glimmering reminder of the ways in which even the most self-consciously progressive young women often see the world through the lenses of heterosexual men-whose vision is clearly impaired if they’re spotting “glistening oysters” in the dark. The novel features plenty of Selin’s biting humor, frustrations with evolving (and devolving) friendships, free-flowing thoughts on musicians from Fiona Apple to Lauryn Hill, and a stint writing for a travel guide. While The Idiot took place during Selin’s freshman year and took Dostoevsky for its titular inspiration, Either/Or occurs during her sophomore year, and borrows its title from Kierkegaard’s seminal text debating the merits of an aesthetic versus an ethical life.