tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post8418410381855162861..comments2024-02-10T18:19:36.406-08:00Comments on Newspaper Rock: No such thing as "Indian fiction"?Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-81664518551381306392007-08-06T16:58:00.000-07:002007-08-06T16:58:00.000-07:00Writerfella here -- Wow, a Native American 'fu...Writerfella here --<BR/> Wow, a Native American 'fundamentalist'! By the same logic, however, there must be no such thing as "European fiction" as EuroMan in his tribal days DID NOT WRITE FICTION IN THE FORM OF NOVELS, EITHER. And the same proviso would hold true for any other race of humans on the face of the planet who did not write fiction in the form of novels in their tribal days, as well. The Library of Congress must be a ghost edifice devoted to futility, as there cannot be either American fiction nor even world fiction to adorn its shelves and databases. The scientists translating the hundreds of papyrus pages adorning one particular mummy's sarcophagus might as well give it all up, as there cannot be anything approaching Egyptian fiction. <BR/> What David Treuer fails to recognize is that he has decided to play EuroMan's game, judging and critiquing by rules he did not make on forms of writing that he did not write. Further, he has written his own fiction, again not realizing that his own logic dictates that there can be no such thing as "Native American critique" because Native Americans were not critics and never wrote in the form of 'scholarly' critique.<BR/> writerfella hopes that Treuer never has a nosebleed in a strong Minnesota wind or he will have to surrender his CDIB card, that is, IF he has one... <BR/>All Best<BR/>Russ Bates<BR/>'writerfella'writerfellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00111681906238053379noreply@blogger.com