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What's in a Genre: Black Authors and SFF
MY THOUGHTS
1:35 the theme of the talk is how genre placement influences a work's reception/advertisement/readership connection
5:36 CHloe asks, what is the purpose of genre, how do you define, and relate to genre from each of the panelists perspectives
7:18 Njeri said growing up and before, she never focused on genre, she followed authors or work of a certain way but now , especially in the past few years, she notes the genre. Her work as a reviewer focused her mentality. She worries about the elitism around genre. She feels story or purpose is stronger.
She is right, artistic debate can be very chaotic and genre can be a tool for some to limit how a work can be interpreted.
10:04 Oghenechovwe said Genre is meant for organization... I concur , the number of books in human history demand categorization.
He said its strength is its flaw. It categorizes but it also leads to the possibility of assumed expectation from readers or structural rigidity from writers
14:28 Jherane, she spoke as a reader, who doesn't write, so she wants to have some expectations. Readers can be upset when they don't get what they expect.
I concur, the readers or the money, influence the financial ability of a work based on their expectations
She admits the caribbean reading community the readership isn't forced into genres but more to themes, as she finds in many non usa or european reading groups.
19:35 Alex states as a librarian or review genre matters a lot. For her genre doesn't have firm borders. But librarians need genre's and this dictates management in the library bookselling environment.
I think geographic notations needed to be added into the genre list. What is Statian Science Fiction/What is Chinese Science fiction /What is South African Science Fiction... et cetera
23:37 Oghenechovwe I concur to his historical point, the usage of genre has been more a tool to dictate what readers should expect. ala why Daughters of the Dust is still for many a period piece, and not a science fiction or fantasy film
He makes a great point, how people view knowledge, or science , dictates how they view the fictional interpretation of science or knowledge
27:29 Njeri supports Oghenechovwe well, the categories are too blunt, or are definitely less flexible or rigid. And, the readership is the money, and to make your work financially successful you need the readership to feel comfort, but that comfortability is functionally a negative bias
31:22 good points on Freshwater by Chloe
32:19 Jherene explains how magic is perceived in the caribbean where Jherene lives
I wonder what the panel will think on Genre's being replaced by Themes instead as a main category in the selling of work, not in libraries
38:56 Njeri talks about how what horrifies her is not always in horror and Chloe continued with a perspective from a poet in how she looked for books not listed as horror for the horror anthology she curated
40:42 Chloe asks the panel, where do you want genre to go
Oghenechovwe talks about the need for greater expanse in the future, Jherene relates it to genre's in music that come and go need to be mirrored in literature, Alex talks about more voices and the need for gatekeepers are getting fewer and fewer and controller and controller but the readership has to expand out and maintain looking beyond what the industrial owners demand, Njeri focuses on lifting up and centering on certain work , to be definitive of where to read,
Oghenechovwe says focus to the literature is focused on above the academic discussion about a literature
Ben Okri, flagship novel, the famished road
Unraveling from KAren Lord
daylight come by diana mcauley
VIDEO NOTESThistle & Verse
Panelists' websites
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki: https://odekpeki.com/
Onyx Pages: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_reNHCI5mUeKGbvkN2_bTA
Alex Brown: https://bookjockeyalex.com/author/bookjockeyalex/
Jherane Patmore of Rebel Women Lit: https://www.rebelwomenlit.com/A big thanks to Britt Writerly ( https://www.youtube.com/c/BrittWriterly) for helping me come up with this panel.
LINK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIJYg_o9wXY