> From: Jess Nevins
> Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 10:43 AM
> To:
rara-avis@icomm.ca
> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Women
Rewriting
>
> So you think an AA from urban Boston would write the
same
> and with the same perspective as an AA from, say,
Jim Hogg County
> in Texas? Or that an AA from Washington, DC, would
write the same
> as one from LA?
>
> You think that simply by sharing the same skin color
that all those
> writers, whose experiences in the US are going to be
very different,
> will write from the same perspective?
No one is the "same" ... you're looking for absolutes when
the color of reality is gray. There is an African-American
perspective ... the body of African-American work reflects
it.
> I generally disregard what's on a book jacket for
the same reason
> that people disregard publisher's blurbs.
It's not limited to the book jacket, that's just an
example.
> I have read that comment on rare occasions. More
often I've
> read reviews about "Written on the Body" with
phrases like
> "failed experiment" and "hilariously
bad."
Never seen one that said that, but I agree with it.
> They're all men, but that isn't the same thing as
writing from a male
> perspective. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find
many similarities
> between A.C.Doyle and James Ellroy, for
one.
Perspective for one and voice for the other ... minus
cultural differences.
> But I doubt you and I are going to persuade each
other of anything,
> or that there's much common ground between our two
points of
> view, so I'm going to give up this thread. You can
have the last
> word, if you'd like.
Well, we agree on one thing.
volente Deo,
Anthony Dauer Alexandria, Virginia
"The dead are heavy, after all."
-Will Christopher Baer, "Penny Dreadful"
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