April 28, 2005
"Lolita Misrepresented; Lolita Reclaimed: Disclosing The Doubles”
"Why didn't the Lolita myth evolve in a way that more accurately reflects Nabokov's Lolita? Why isn't the definition of "Lolita" "a molested adolescent girl" instead of a "seductive" one? The answer seems relatively clear, but its consequences are complex.
...throughout the years Lolita has become the product of our culture beyond the book's pages, where she has been made a murderess by characters far more powerful than Humbert. And these mythical machineries of evil Lolita narratives perpetuate a misogyny that imposes developmentally abnormal sexuality on some females and simultaneously punishes all females for any sexuality.
article by Elizabeth Patnoe
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