HeyJaredThe Extraliterary
The Extraliterary is Brent Raycroft's outlet for his short essays on Canadian poetry, with tangents leading into the extraliterary "world." I am a Canadian poet, critic, freelance editor, housekeeper, bricoleur, parent of adult children.
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(The Decline of) “Philistine” the Insult (opens the original)
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For those who have not read Part 1, I recommend reading it for context, but it is not essential to understanding Part 2. What I should explain, though, is the reason for my focus on a single word, the insult “philistine” and its fate. Part 2 has a relatively light tone because of its lighter—literally comic—subject matter, but my larger project is geo-political in its reference, and as heavy as genocide. A quote from Part 1 will do:The legacy of the ancient Philistines…is much more than one hand
“Philistine” the Insult (opens the original)
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Part 1: A Problematic Introduction, with a note on Edward SaidAs a child in the 1960s I experienced that era’s broad movement against the use of racial, national and cultural slurs. In my eastern Ontario elementary school, we were all white and either Christian or “no religion” kids, so some insults were seldom heard. But they were present in the very rhymes of the playground: “Eenie meenie minie mo. Catch a—”…. I remember the original. The teachers told us we must use something else. “Tiger” wa
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