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Oedipus in Manhattan

The blind report to the blind.

By Susan J. Douglas

Lucky for me, I have smart friends. As several of us were mourning and trying to make sense of the catastrophe of September 11 on the following Sunday, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, the feminist historian, said, “It’s really like a Greek tragedy, isn’t it?” We had been talking about aspects of the disaster rarely, if ever, mentioned on the news channels: the… return to article

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