[lbo-talk] Prose Style, was Time to Get Religion

[ravi]

At around 9/12/06 12:26 am, Jerry Monaco wrote:
> On 12/7/06, Eric <rayrena at realtime.net> wrote:
>>
>> Isn't criticizing people for not writing "clear" prose really
>> criticizing them for not adhering to a norm? And isn't this norm
>> developed within a society that privileges the white, the male, the
>> heterosexual, and the European? Why are, eg, Spivak and Butler
>> supposed to write like Chomsky, Orwell, and Bertrand Russell?
>

This I am afraid doesn't help much since the need to quote "clear" is
the issue and the following questions cannot be answered without first
removing those quotes. Gayatri Spivak as an eastern woman (judging by
the name) would be found part of a society that is capable of developing
such norms i.e., it might turn out to be a matter of credit to create
and participate in a tradition of clear writing and it would be
racist/sexist etc to suggest that such a tradition is merely male or
European.

	--ravi