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Re: support for the arts in the US

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From: Tim Guay
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 15:02
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In article <18426@mindlink.bc.ca> Alan_Barclay@mindlink.bc.ca (Alan Barclay) writes:
>RE: Support for the arts is control
>If Canada's literary funding is guilty of anything, it's encouraging
>"Frontier Stories", "immigrant stories" and other "cultural" literature and
>ignoring genre work.  Apparently they don't believe genre literature can
>express any Canadian Character.

That's my GREAT complaint with the Canada Council and the rest of my country's
literary establishment! SF is treated as a secound-class literary citizen.
They seem to think that literary SF is an oxymoron! 
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From: guay@fraser.sfu.ca (Tim Guay)
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