{"id":96575,"date":"2025-11-19T02:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=96575"},"modified":"2025-11-18T10:32:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:32:53","slug":"julia-a-feminist-retelling-of-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/11\/19\/julia-a-feminist-retelling-of-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Julia<\/em>: A Feminist Retelling of <em>1984<\/em>?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eUPNybhF0kw?si=pfOkRIHy_wd5S2_X\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 11 Jul 2025<\/p>\n<p><em>Julia<\/em>, a 2023 novel by Sandra Newman, does more than just retell Orwell&#8217;s <em>1984<\/em> through Julia&#8217;s eyes. That perspective switch presents an Oceania that is both more mundane and more familiar. It&#8217;s certainly a companion piece more than a stand-alone work, but it does have something to offer both in how it examines Orwell and a few times, how it contradicts him. <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n02:18 a Different Perspective<br \/>\n09:30 Caught in a Trap<br \/>\n12:45 Backstory<br \/>\n15:40 Departures<br \/>\n20:18 Endings and Beginnings<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 Patreon   | patreon.com\/FeralHistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Ko-Fi     | ko-fi.com\/feralhistorian\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 11 Jul 2025 Julia, a 2023 novel by Sandra Newman, does more than just retell Orwell&#8217;s 1984 through Julia&#8217;s eyes. That perspective switch presents an Oceania that is both more mundane and more familiar. It&#8217;s certainly a companion piece more than a stand-alone work, but it does have something to offer both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4,28,53],"tags":[1593,354,424,139,34],"class_list":["post-96575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-britain","category-media","category-politics","tag-feralhistorian","tag-georgeorwell","tag-morality","tag-psychology","tag-thought-control"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-p7F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99137,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96575\/revisions\/99137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}