Comments on: Stuff White Colonialists Like http://jueseph.com/2008/05/stuff-white-colonialists-like/ home Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:37:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: cj http://jueseph.com/2008/05/stuff-white-colonialists-like/comment-page-1/#comment-111 cj Thu, 29 May 2008 19:20:53 +0000 http://jueseph.com/blog/?p=176#comment-111 That was a terrific article! I love satirical pieces that link trends in literature to attitudes in pop culture, or vice versa. In this sense it reminded me of this nyt article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/books/review/Itzkoff-t.html. It's from back in the day when Giuliani, Huckabee, and Edwards were still in the prez race, and given your love of the new york times you've probably already read it, but if you haven't, I bet you'll get a kick out of it. Someone should take the Granta article and make a computer program that will calculate how successful a given Africa book (or short story or something) will be based on Wainaina's criteria. Example: "Dead body" - 1 point "Naked dead body" - 3 points "Rotting naked dead body" - 10 points Add all the points up and compare it to some benchmark, like a Chinua Achebe book. That was a terrific article! I love satirical pieces that link trends in literature to attitudes in pop culture, or vice versa. In this sense it reminded me of this nyt article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/books/review/Itzkoff-t.html. It’s from back in the day when Giuliani, Huckabee, and Edwards were still in the prez race, and given your love of the new york times you’ve probably already read it, but if you haven’t, I bet you’ll get a kick out of it.

Someone should take the Granta article and make a computer program that will calculate how successful a given Africa book (or short story or something) will be based on Wainaina’s criteria. Example:
“Dead body” – 1 point
“Naked dead body” – 3 points
“Rotting naked dead body” – 10 points
Add all the points up and compare it to some benchmark, like a Chinua Achebe book.

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