Wideman, John Edgar - Mark Shechner (review date March/April 1995)
Mark Shechner (review date March/April 1995)
SOURCE: "Men Will Be Men," in Tikkun, Vol. 10, No. 2, March/April, 1995, pp. 80-82.
[Shechner is an American educator, author, and critic. In the following review, he offers a favorable assessment of Fatheralong.]
I recall the lectures well, lectures verging upon scoldings, about how "the family" or rather that peculiar constellation of two parents living in the same household with their children, was a "bourgeois" or "late capitalist" institution that had little to say for itself in a post-bourgeois, postmodern age. "The two-parent family could be, and in places had been, superseded by an equivalent, even historically antecedent, constellation the "extended kinship group." It performed all the nursing and rearing functions of the nuclear family and was, if anything, more functional for some ethnic and/or economic groups. No one who was subjected, perhaps a decade ago, to this doxology will...
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