how often we equate an art or a community's "maturity" with its appeal to that dominant culture.
Oooooh. That's super interesting, and if your thoughts ever coalesce into a post I'd be happy to read it.
It reminds me of how certain critics seemed to regard John Green as the savior of the YA genre, even though he was only doing the exact same thing that a lot of female YA authors at the time were doing, and in some cases not even doing it as well. (My impression is that Green himself knew this, and tried to push back against this critical narrative, but... critics gonna critic, I guess?) It's like they read his books and were like "this is a book a grown-up person, like me, can appreciate!" and then didn't even bother to read E. Lockhart.
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Date: 2020-09-08 08:02 pm (UTC)Oooooh. That's super interesting, and if your thoughts ever coalesce into a post I'd be happy to read it.
It reminds me of how certain critics seemed to regard John Green as the savior of the YA genre, even though he was only doing the exact same thing that a lot of female YA authors at the time were doing, and in some cases not even doing it as well. (My impression is that Green himself knew this, and tried to push back against this critical narrative, but... critics gonna critic, I guess?) It's like they read his books and were like "this is a book a grown-up person, like me, can appreciate!" and then didn't even bother to read E. Lockhart.