{"id":5203,"date":"2014-05-15T16:13:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T21:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5203"},"modified":"2014-05-15T16:13:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T21:13:29","slug":"science-fiction-canon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/05\/15\/science-fiction-canon\/","title":{"rendered":"Colouring in the science fiction canon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nChauncey de Vega is one of the smartest bloggers I&#8217;m currently following and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaunceydevega.com\/2014\/05\/white-space-we-are-more-than-lieutenant.html\">he&#8217;s not wrong about the science fiction canon<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nThe Real History of Science Fiction is an example of how the idea of &#8220;canon&#8221;, i.e the required &#8220;serious&#8221; work written by &#8220;serious&#8221; people that all &#8220;serious&#8221; students should learn and model themselves after, and that the public embraces as &#8220;important&#8221; because someone who is &#8220;smart&#8221; told them so, perpetuates &#8220;unintentional&#8221; white supremacy (as well as sexism, homophobia, and other types of discrimination).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The canon&#8221; is the result of a type of path dependent decision-making that normalizes the world as seen from the perspective of the in-group&#8211;while ignoring the foundational question(s) of how disparities of Power have naturalized what is understood by them (and some others) to be commonsense, matter of fact, taken for granted, reality.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nWhich raises the question of how to build up a more representative canon, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaunceydevega.com\/2014\/05\/white-space-we-are-more-than-lieutenant.html\">people of colour have been writing science fiction for as long if not longer as white people have<\/a> yet are rarely recognised beyond Butler, Delany and possibly Hopkinson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chauncey de Vega is one of the smartest bloggers I&#8217;m currently following and he&#8217;s not wrong about the science fiction canon: The Real History of Science Fiction is an example of how the idea of &#8220;canon&#8221;, i.e the required &#8220;serious&#8221; work written by &#8220;serious&#8221; people that all &#8220;serious&#8221; students should learn and model themselves after, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5205,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203\/revisions\/5205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}