/lit/ - Literature

Oh look it's this thread again

>>22088837
Anna of the green gables is Canadian

>>22088844
I, OP, am new on /lit/. It's the first time that I see somebody talking about this topic.

>>22088846
Who?

>>22088837
Do the needful and read R K Narayan (especially Malgudi Days). Along with Rabindranath Tagore and Kushwanth Singh.

>>22088846
Anne*

>>22088837
There is no culture in ''the USA''.

''the USA"were founded by bourgeois tax evaders in order to have a huge land where they good do what bourgeois do: mercantlism.

no monarchy= no history= no culture = no art

And the colonies have no need for a culture because the mercantilists in ''the USA"' reached them already.

In canada the only culture you can find is on the french side, this speaks volume about the angloworld.

>>22088910
>Khushcunt Singh
That coomer was okay in small doses and in articles here & there. But over-all he is a mediocre and despicable man.

Melville wrote about this although I can’t recall if it was an essay or one of his letters.

America was the only Protestant colony, and Protestants valued reading more than Catholics/Anglicans/Hindus.
Amusing Ourselves to Death devotes a whole chapter to explaining how well-read the average American was before radio and TV, but I wonder if the real culprit is mass Italian and Irish immigration importing an anti-intellectual Catholic spirit into the nation.

>>22088910
>Rabindranath Tagore
Gitanjali & Kabuliwala
Kino!
>Malgudi Days
KinoMax!
Khushwant's 'I shall not hear the nightingale' is simply based.

Do you anons ever feel that the encroachment of technology and media will actually lead to English being the only language spoken?

>>22089352
>America was the only Protestant colony, and Protestants valued reading more than Catholics/Anglicans/Hindus
What?
>but I wonder if the real culprit is mass Italian and Irish immigration importing an anti-intellectual Catholic spirit into the nation.
What the fuck are you talking about? LATAM has a more developed literary and artist culture than the USA. How could catholics be blamed for the intellectual downfall of the USA?

Hine, Hope

>>22088837
Canada and Australia still live in their parents basement and the rest seem to be working on it, took the US about a century to get its tradition going.

>>22089352
>Protestants valued reading more than Catholics
>mass Italian and Irish immigration importing an anti-intellectual Catholic spirit into the nation.
lmao you protestants are completely deranged and deluded

>>22088837
Indian subcontinent has a vibrant lit culture. None if their shit gets translated

>>22088837
>Besides
Including.

>>22088837
Content quotas, government broadcasters that are full of their own shit, smaller populations, over reliance on American and English culture and being squashed by their influence, general self self hatred of our own art scene. e.t.c.

Living in Australia is living hell for the arts and I imagine the same is true in Canada and New Zealand.

>>22088837
>I can't even name a single canadian/aussie writer.
Have you ever supposed that this is a flaw in you? Patrick White, Margaret Atwood.

>>22088837
>I can't even name a single canadian/aussie writer.
Peter Watts and Greg Egan, duh.

Scifi chads just keep dabbing on fags like OP.