/lit/ - Literature

>Realise I've been almost every English-language book I've read has been written by a white man.
>Decide to broaden my literary horizons
>Buy a bunch of highly-recommended books by women and minority authors
>Pick up first woman book: Annie Ernaux's "L'evenement"
>Is about having an arbortion
>Pick up second one: "Her Body and Other Parties"
>Is about sexism and abortion
>Pick up third one: "The Handmaid's Tale"
>Is an extended allegory about sexism and abortion rights
>Pick up fourth one: Samanta Schweblin's "Mouthful of Birds"
>About sexism and abortion
>Pick up first book by black man: "The Tradition" by Jericho Brown
>Is about racism
>Pick up second book by black woman: "The Hate U Give"
>Is about racism
>Pick up third book: "Homegoing"
>Is about racism and abortion
>Pick up fourth book: "Girl, Woman, Other"
>About racism and sexism
>Mfw I realise I wasn't missing out on anything.

Do these categories of people not have any inner lives beyond these specific issues? I have read non-English language literature by non-white people and it's actually about interesting, universally-applicable themes, but somehow being part of the English-speaking world flattens these people's perspectives down to the single issue of their relationship to white people. And women everywhere seem completely incapable of writing about anything other than their relationship to men. Honestly truly pathetic.

>>18507987
It's really not THAT bad. If you can make your way through something like Gravity's Rainbow, IJ should be no problem. There are also some really uproarious moments.

>>18508012
Fuck off.

>>18507992
>Its concerns seem sort of quaint now
This is true. It's sort of like the little iPad things in '60s Star Trek: surprisingly prescient in some ways, really naive in others.