At 01:59 PM 04/11/2005 -0800, you wrote:
>To answer your question Kerry, no, I didn't really
intend the Manifesto as
>political call to arms. At least not in the sense
that it calls for the
>embracing of a particular political
ideology.
No, I didn't take it that way either.
>That said, I do think I agree with the notion --
which both you and Steve
>seem to be expressing, though in different
terms--that almost every story
>expresses a social and political value system, even
if it pretends
>otherwise, or does so at some metalevel, unconscious
to its creators.
I'm not sure I can accept that idea anymore, that these
things are at an unconscious level. Not in the post-modern
era. Not after 1984 and its continued application. Not with
every school from the local day--care to Harvard Business
School bragging about turning out future leaders. If there
are to be leaders, there must be followers. My sense is that
inherited hierarchies are understood and largely accepted, or
at least accept the propaganda is that the hierarchies might
as well be accepted because there is no real alternative
anymore.
So when you said that "crime fiction is no longer the
revolutionary medium it once was, but rather propaganda for
the status quo," and called for a change, I took that to be a
political statement. As such, I found it quite exciting. I
may decide to continue to misconstrue you intentions.
>I guess what I find intriguing about Manchette and
some of the other
>writers I mention in "Noir Manifesto" is the way they
use and/or abuse
>genre conventions to crash through the social and
literary codes that
>predetermine meaning--and free us, however briefly,
from those
>perceptions.
>
>And, as Mark mentions, they are great
reads.
Of course. Just like The Confession. That's the first
requirement.
Best, Kerry
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