Bob Toomey wrote:
> Words from the Monastery wrote:
>
> > One would say there is an African-American
perspective and to deny it would
> > get you labeled as a racist in some liberal
circles.
>
> What about black writers like Willard Motley and
Frank Yerby, or
> cartoonist George Herriman (creator of Krazy Kat),
or SF writers Steven
> Barnes, Samuel R. Delany and James Nelson? With the
possible exception
> of Delany, the academics don't even count these guys
as black writers,
> because their perspective isn't
"African-American."
We must know and read different academics, then.
I'd say that the academics don't pay much attention to
Herriman and Barnes and Nelson because they're genre
creators. When they do pay attention to them, they
acknowledge their ethnicity. At least, the academics I've
known and read and seen at various conferences do.
But, again, the problem with this argument is that all these
writers share very little except ethnicity. To say that they
still have an "African-American perspective" in their work is
to warp the evidence to fit the theory.
jess
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