08-10-2016, 06:50 PM
1. Europe is not a particularly old culture. Anything written in English before the Elizabethans is pretty shite. Italian has the oldest of the modern European literatures and even there it's just a thousand years since Dante. Greece and Rome don't count - they were a foreign culture where pederasty was common practice and the gods drank the smoke of roasting bull thigh bones.
2. It is language that limits, not geography. White New World writers belonged to the European tradition, someone writing in Swahili does not. Now of course, white writers can be black or brown or yellow, thanks to rock music, curry, and cheap tickets on China Southern. And Japanese porn.
3. Hollwood has painted everything before. And Coca Cola. Basically, America. And the UK- James Bond, not Hamlet.
4. Saying new things or old things in new ways - Monty Python, Douglas Adams, Ricky Gervais. It's always possible.
My post above is a bit haphazard from typing on handheld. Will edit later.
2. It is language that limits, not geography. White New World writers belonged to the European tradition, someone writing in Swahili does not. Now of course, white writers can be black or brown or yellow, thanks to rock music, curry, and cheap tickets on China Southern. And Japanese porn.
3. Hollwood has painted everything before. And Coca Cola. Basically, America. And the UK- James Bond, not Hamlet.
4. Saying new things or old things in new ways - Monty Python, Douglas Adams, Ricky Gervais. It's always possible.
My post above is a bit haphazard from typing on handheld. Will edit later.
~ I think I just quoted myself - Achebe