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Re: National Book Award Winner and Nominees -- ONE CRAZY SUMMER
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From: bookmarch_at_aol.com
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:53:46 -0500 (EST)
It is a tricky business -- Betty Carter and Anne Scott MacLeod have interes ting essays about historical fiction and plausibility in Roger Sutton and M artha Parravano, eds., A Family of Readers, though Dr. MacLeod leans a bit more heavily towards the social norm of the period as a judge of the plausi bility of a character than I might. They both make the strong point that if , for example, an author describes a strong, independent-minded, girl in a society that disapproved of such behavior, then the author must make it ver y clear why the character is so unusual -- which then of course means the b ook is more a character study than an insight into a period. A character ca n be at varience with her time, but it is very likely that she would -- as Cecile does -- pay a price for that.
Marc Aronson
Received on Wed 24 Nov 2010 09:53:46 AM CST
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:53:46 -0500 (EST)
It is a tricky business -- Betty Carter and Anne Scott MacLeod have interes ting essays about historical fiction and plausibility in Roger Sutton and M artha Parravano, eds., A Family of Readers, though Dr. MacLeod leans a bit more heavily towards the social norm of the period as a judge of the plausi bility of a character than I might. They both make the strong point that if , for example, an author describes a strong, independent-minded, girl in a society that disapproved of such behavior, then the author must make it ver y clear why the character is so unusual -- which then of course means the b ook is more a character study than an insight into a period. A character ca n be at varience with her time, but it is very likely that she would -- as Cecile does -- pay a price for that.
Marc Aronson
Received on Wed 24 Nov 2010 09:53:46 AM CST
