28 February 2023, 04:30 PM
big alCraft in the Real World
The New, Weirdly Racist Guide to Writing Fiction quote:
The book taking MFA programs by storm preaches ‘separate but equal’ by another name
Has anyone encountered this book? Any opinions on this author's critique?
Big Al
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28 February 2023, 11:24 PM
Daniel‘If it was true that Western literary craft simply didn’t apply to work from other cultures, then the obvious solution would be segregation’
That's not even a "big if."
It's plain stupidity.
01 March 2023, 08:22 AM
Mary AnnaAs much as I might like to engage with questions like this in my classroom, doing so puts me at risk of breaking the unclearly worded state law that appears to bar discussion in required college courses of topics that might make any student uncomfortable because of issues like their race and gender.
Any student.
So I'm at risk of breaking this law by discussing any work of literature at all.
Y'all come visit me in jail, okay?