Reading Pile (non-fiction)

[dreamer_easy]

This could take a while.

Comments

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I blush to confess it's Postcolonialism: a very short introduction. :-)

[tysolna]

Yesyes! Same book on my shelf, only it's on loan from the library. I blush to confess that I go back to it frequently to look things up.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

You inspired me to go and have a look at the Wikipedia entry on Postcolonialism, and I was surprised and pleased that I was already familiar with some of the concepts, possibly from reading feminist academic stuff about SF, possibly from my piddling postgrad degree (two years part time, way hey). In fact, IIUC, "writing back to the centre" is more or less what Ben was doing with his African future, which inspired me to do the same in SLEEPY.

[tysolna]

Yes, feminism and postcolonialism share a lot of concepts, as I am beginning to find out or rather realize, and I am beginning to think that the history of SF (way back when it was a "literary ghetto" kind of thing) shares certain traits with that as well, since SF was in a way a marginalized literature. I may, of course, be completely wrong. ;)

Hang on, I inspired you?

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought I'd better swot up before we talked. :-)

[tysolna]

You presume that I know what I'm talking about. ;-)