Thread: Octavia E. Butler against Lovecraft (World Fantasy Award).
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Old 11-19-2014   #277
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Re: Octavia E. Butler against Lovecraft (World Fantasy Award).
Quote Originally Posted by qcrisp View Post
Bringing the thread right back to its essential theme of Lovecraft and the WFA, there's this article by Eleanor Arnason at Strange Horizons:

http://www.strangehorizons.com/2014/...rnason-c.shtml
Most harrowing quote from your link:

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Frederick Engels says somewhere that all oppression begins with the oppression of women and children. Sexism is foundational. It is based in the family, which is the basic human social unit, and it pervades human societies. Class prejudice has been with us since the Neolithic, when it became possible to pile up wealth, thus creating social classes.

But I am not willing to throw out all the art that is tainted by sexism or class prejudice, which brings us back to reading critically.




Well . . . thanks for stopping just shy of full-on book burner. Generous of you to concede that *some* of the tainted art would survive your reign.

Yikes.
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