The Danger of The Single Story

[andrewducker]

with many thanks to cavalorn.

On a similar topic - one of this year's BSFA nominations - I Didn't Dream Of Dragons. Both are worth reading for the effect that growing up reading the literature of another culture can have on a person.

Comments

[andrewducker]

With any kind of story, the specifics are pretty much the point, IMHO.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

When you are consuming the individual text to be entertained, yes. Or when the text is being used socially/mythically to identify who 'we' are against who 'they' are.

My point was that, if you remove these specifics then at the level of structure fantasy writing from different places and times is perhaps more alike than the author of the article seemed to acknowledge.