But your are right. Why should 'Asian' be a restriction? We are Asians, aren't we all?
What I was trying to get at (and I hope I am clear now) is that we shouldn't be typecast as "Asian" authors/writers. People see Asian writers, they expect to see Asian fiction.
What I was trying to get at (and I hope I am clear now) is that we shouldn't be typecast as "Asian" authors/writers. People see Asian writers, they expect to see Asian fiction.
*nods* Agreed.
My personal inclination is, rather than to move away from being labelled as a writer of "Asian fiction", to expand the definition of Asian fiction. Westerners don't own science fiction and fantasy; they do not even own the English language, much as some would like to think so. *g* But I don't think we disagree on this!
Exactly this! When I write 'high school' compositions (even at JC and Sec School) I've always written about Singaporean schools (Thoug h Iused john and mary as names because they were much easier than using my classmates' names. Classmates might read them, 'John' and 'mary' would not).
That makes it high school 'fic', but it's undeniably Singaporean, not American or UK.
Asian doesn't have to mean "Catherine Lim' superstitious fiction, or Amy Tan's 'Cultural revolution'. We can do so much more with Asian.
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Date: 2010-11-23 11:17 am (UTC)Why restrict ourselves to “Asian” and nothing else?
Why should "Asian" be a restriction? (My attitude to this is: what else would I be?)
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Date: 2010-11-23 12:46 pm (UTC)But your are right. Why should 'Asian' be a restriction? We are Asians, aren't we all?
What I was trying to get at (and I hope I am clear now) is that we shouldn't be typecast as "Asian" authors/writers. People see Asian writers, they expect to see Asian fiction.
Hope I am clear here.
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Date: 2010-11-23 01:40 pm (UTC)*nods* Agreed.
My personal inclination is, rather than to move away from being labelled as a writer of "Asian fiction", to expand the definition of Asian fiction. Westerners don't own science fiction and fantasy; they do not even own the English language, much as some would like to think so. *g* But I don't think we disagree on this!
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Date: 2010-11-23 02:16 pm (UTC)And they definitely do not own the English language. *LOL*
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Date: 2010-11-24 06:05 am (UTC)That makes it high school 'fic', but it's undeniably Singaporean, not American or UK.
Asian doesn't have to mean "Catherine Lim' superstitious fiction, or Amy Tan's 'Cultural revolution'. We can do so much more with Asian.