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There is no coming back from this week’s devastating report about writer Alice Munro’s complicity in the sexual abuse of her youngest daughter.
For so many people worldwide, Munro was a feminist icon acclaimed for her ability to give voice to the intricate inner lives of girls and women.
But as Rebecca Sullivan, professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University of Calgary writes today in The Conversation Canada, the news has forced a reckoning about the way Munro’s legacy will be remembered.
Sullivan says Munro’s unwavering support of her husband, despite his conviction of sexual assault of her daughter, reveals her twisted take on feminism and motherhood. Sullivan writes: Munro’s rationale for ultimately staying with her husband until his death and harbouring his secret until she died this May was “a travesty borne out of her twisted interpretation of the feminist politics of motherhood.” Now, says Sullivan, “we are left with the shattered fragments of her legacy.”
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Alice Munro (left) receives her 1986 Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language fiction from Governor General Jeanne Sauvé in Toronto, 1987.
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Rebecca Sullivan, University of Calgary
An essay by Alice Munro’s daughter about childhood sexual abuse has forced a reckoning with the legacy of the feminist icon and writer acclaimed for her ability to give voice to women’s lives.
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Health
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