David D:
"I got so tired of defending popular fiction from academic
snobbery in grad school that it is a little disheartening to
have to defend important academic work from anti-intellectual
snobbery here at RARA AVIS, where I nonetheless still feel
more at home than in the university."
As someone who's both leftist and out of the academy, I
simply couldn't agree more. I've met lots of academic
snobbery and I don't like it, but I hate non- academic,
non-intellectual snobbery even more.
(And I know this is quite off-topic. As for the new voices
guiding noir fiction, I'd say it's James Ellroy, no matter
what we think of his books as a whole: they brought new
themes into noir and hardboiled fiction that hadn't been
dealt before. And he wrote in a new way, even though I
remember someone saying that he sounds like a drunken Jack
Webb. The actor.)
Juri
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