tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863746.post112343537281968006..comments2023-11-13T12:20:06.565-08:00Comments on California Writer: Paula Woods' novels about justiceCalifornia Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01215264068422830371noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863746.post-1123530205226258372005-08-08T12:43:00.000-07:002005-08-08T12:43:00.000-07:00What's strange but consistent throughout your scri...What's strange but consistent throughout your scribblings is the assumption that some sort of sexual-racial identity of authors should be defined and specified and only then should their works be read/analyzed/critiqued: i.e., <BR/>"I'm reading some 80's detective stories written by handicapped lesbian women from eastern Ukraine and they sure are swell." <BR/><BR/>Some of us don't read like that, and to think that you might convince angelenos that they should sort of choose some currently hip PC category of writing and then read the writing is nearly stalinist...hate to break the news to ya, but Alice Walker is not accorded some "authentic hipster writer" status simply due to her being black and having a vagina. Her writing is realy pretty f-n abysmal (as is Morrison's) and a PC "identity" doesn't improve it in the least.<BR/><BR/>I read and reread Raymond Chandler, and I don't assess something like "Farewell my Lovely based on RC's presumed racial or even political identity, but for more literary reasons: he uses the language creatively and effectively and also raises or hints at political-social issues which are historically interesting as well as pertinent to the current state of LA corruption and decadence.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.com