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- From: guay@fraser.sfu.ca (Tim Guay)
- Subject: Re: support for the arts in the US
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.150206.16900@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <18426@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 15:02:06 GMT
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- In article <18426@mindlink.bc.ca> Alan_Barclay@mindlink.bc.ca (Alan Barclay) writes:
- >RE: Support for the arts is control
- >If Canada's literary funding is guilty of anything, it's encouraging
- >"Frontier Stories", "immigrant stories" and other "cultural" literature and
- >ignoring genre work. Apparently they don't believe genre literature can
- >express any Canadian Character.
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- That's my GREAT complaint with the Canada Council and the rest of my country's
- literary establishment! SF is treated as a secound-class literary citizen.
- They seem to think that literary SF is an oxymoron!
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