RHETOR 109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Henry Darger, Jessica Yu, Speculative Realism
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Jessica yu animated darger"s script and drawings, (cid:498)in the realms of the unreal(cid:499) Females were beyond the duality of males and females. Complicated the genders: put male genetalia on female bodies, made uncomfortable art, two opposites can exist without canceling out the other. Children are not being protected, they are actually in the position of the slaves (civil. Speculation that darger wanted to be a girl. Challenges the gender boundaries in art outsider the natural. What other people see as junk he is collecting and refashioning. Applied multiple times to adopt children but were denied. Video is someone reading darger"s unfinished memoir. Figure of child question of child labor? war story like) oppression happening to the children. Manipulation of stock image manipulating mass media. Just because parts of life wasn"t shared with the public doesn"t mean he is an. He doesn"t mean cut off from history and culture, but seems like he is actually.
