"note that lighted/shaded binaries are all contextual and it's quite possible for a movement to be lighted in one context and shaded in another (as a rock on the lighted side of the mountain has its own lighted and shaded side.) so 'lighted' and 'shaded' are more useful ways of thinking about how texts relate to one another rather than absolute qualities of the texts themselves."
Yes, thank you, I was thinking about this as I fell asleep last night.
It seems that as long as we use a qualifier that the writing is shaded in some way. As long as women's writing is women's writing instead of simply writing. Black writers, latino writers, venusian writers and so on. The same thing happens with genre: An acquaintance sometimes mentions how he does not read science fiction or fantasy, regardless of recommendation or quality of writing. It's not simply a book, it's a scifi book, or a mystery novel, or a western.
I'm curious where you would place something like Finnegan's Wake...
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Date: 2011-11-06 11:24 pm (UTC)Yes, thank you, I was thinking about this as I fell asleep last night.
It seems that as long as we use a qualifier that the writing is shaded in some way. As long as women's writing is women's writing instead of simply writing. Black writers, latino writers, venusian writers and so on. The same thing happens with genre: An acquaintance sometimes mentions how he does not read science fiction or fantasy, regardless of recommendation or quality of writing. It's not simply a book, it's a scifi book, or a mystery novel, or a western.
I'm curious where you would place something like Finnegan's Wake...