Well put. Some of those much-lauded works do well under critical analysis. Plus, reading such analysis primes one to understand how to approach newer works. Not necessary to read E.E. "Doc" Smith to understand space opera, for example.
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i don't actually agree. (I mean, I read those books, i grew up with them) but this expectation that we (in this specfic case: BIPOC) have to read the white colonizer's words to make our own is a form of violence. If you read from living writers, you'll get enough. There's enough.
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I can't deny the impulse to point out that a genre is far too wide a category to have "canon." The only time canon is actually involved is when it's an existing IP. How often does that even happen?
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Sometimes the wheel needs to be reinvented.
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