There’s a growing appetite for stories from around the globe – if only we can avoid the cliches and exoticism of recent years, writes the International Booker nominee
ah yes, the great unserved non-Western culture of … Italy …
it’s wild how power writhes and changes, how Greece and Italy have become outside the center while being the origin of the center, especially ironic given this power gives so much talk of tradition and history.
sure, but Western cultural hegemony has been Anglophone for a while, at least a century or two, its roots being from Italy, hence my perceived irony. Still, I get your point, I’m being uncharitable and lazy by fabricating irony that isn’t there without generalizations I made.
ah yes, the great unserved non-Western culture of … Italy …
it’s wild how power writhes and changes, how Greece and Italy have become outside the center while being the origin of the center, especially ironic given this power gives so much talk of tradition and history.
Anglophone is not interchangeable with Western.
sure, but Western cultural hegemony has been Anglophone for a while, at least a century or two, its roots being from Italy, hence my perceived irony. Still, I get your point, I’m being uncharitable and lazy by fabricating irony that isn’t there without generalizations I made.