I can understand this romanticism of the Old World, because, in a way, we eat our own past. I think that's genuinely what has allowed right wing politics to become so dominant in recent times as the first rule of thumb with any of that shit is to sell an idea of a past that never was.
I would no doubt be wonderstruck about a book set in Canberra, but the shameful thing is that my understanding is so dim that I'd probably only understand it in the context of American works about American cities because I think we are inclined here to tar all English speaking former Dominion countries with the same brush in media, which I'm totally not saying is a good thing.
Not wanting to set stories in the place where you are from is something that is present outside of London here too, I think. It's only recently (recently: past four decades), and possibly prompted by production costs, that you see TV shows that admit to being set in Bristol, or Cardiff, or wherever, and it's just a fact of the setting not a novelty. London, famous for being a city obsessed with commerce, holds the lion's share of cultural currency.
Wow. I am rambling. What I actually meant to come here to say was: I really like your book posts!!
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Date: 2025-01-13 11:03 am (UTC)I would no doubt be wonderstruck about a book set in Canberra, but the shameful thing is that my understanding is so dim that I'd probably only understand it in the context of American works about American cities because I think we are inclined here to tar all English speaking former Dominion countries with the same brush in media, which I'm totally not saying is a good thing.
Not wanting to set stories in the place where you are from is something that is present outside of London here too, I think. It's only recently (recently: past four decades), and possibly prompted by production costs, that you see TV shows that admit to being set in Bristol, or Cardiff, or wherever, and it's just a fact of the setting not a novelty. London, famous for being a city obsessed with commerce, holds the lion's share of cultural currency.
Wow. I am rambling. What I actually meant to come here to say was: I really like your book posts!!