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Resistance to what?
Domestication: that fiction-writers “ought not to chuse too Ancient Accidents, nor unknown Heroes, which are sought for in a Barbarous Country, and too far distant in Time, for we care little for what was done a Thousand Years ago among the Tartars or Abyssines.”
The oriental tale versus the nationalist-realist novel, which alone became respectable; and our genre fictions still are delegitimized.
— Aug 16, 2017 01:53AM
Domestication: that fiction-writers “ought not to chuse too Ancient Accidents, nor unknown Heroes, which are sought for in a Barbarous Country, and too far distant in Time, for we care little for what was done a Thousand Years ago among the Tartars or Abyssines.”
The oriental tale versus the nationalist-realist novel, which alone became respectable; and our genre fictions still are delegitimized.
