Word: aphra
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Dates: during 1969-1969
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...general failure of the literature is akin to the failure of socialist realist literature. Art and ideology are not incompatible when either the art is crafty enough to slip the dogma in unobtrusively, or the ideology is sufficiently original and interesting to justify being dramatized. But in Aphra. the writing doesn't shine, and most of the ideas just aren...
Despite this, and other failures. Aphra is saved by one poem, one short story, and one play. The poem, "New Year's Inventory" by Barbara Harr has light, suggestive humor...
...Aphra probably succeeds in showing at least an aspect of "female consciousness," but the picture it gives is somewhat bleak, since creativity is swamped by dogma, or self-pity, or trivialny...
UNLIKE the Journal, which despairs at the human condition, or Aphra. which makes us despair at its literary attempts, Women: A Journal of Liberation, also new this fall, offers hope: it is a carefully organized magazine with big, shiny, frequently illustrated pages. Numerous authors (including men) have contributed articles to it, based on meticulous research or personal experience. Specific examples of women's problems replace the generalizations that fill the Journal. Also, Women gives detailed information about women's liberation groups all across the country...
Maybe Women: A Journal of Liberation coolly triumphs over No More Fun and Games and Aphra as an appealing advocate of women's liberation because it is less ambitious. Each of its contributors handles just one limited topic; the authors of No More Fun and Games want to save the world; the authors of Aphra want to create...