Wednesday, January 27, 2010

"Literary fiction"

Rachel Swirsky quotes A D Jameson: '“Literary fiction” is what I’d call a super-genre that pretends, a la Derrida and Foucault, to not be a genre at all. It calls other things genres to subordinate them, and to deny its own genre elements. Which is what the ruling power usually does: it calls itself nothing (other than normal or correct), and calls everything else something.'

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