Where's our literary tradition? The south has one. NY has one. Where's ours? (2024)

The legion of outdoors-queer-bipocs is forging your literary tradition as we speak. Pick up a post-colonial queer eco-critical contemporary bestselling anti-racist struggle novel and just see for yourself. sh*t, go visit a lesbian anarchist bookstore in portland and let them educate you on this you worthless white cis chud. There's a long history of bipoc voices in the pnw that you're not even considering bc you're just looking through a lens of straight white maleness in literary tradition.

just claim john steinback

only things I know from your area are Rambo, grunge music and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
t. Euro

I'm too stoned to write

Don't you guys have writers who finish novels in remote cabins only to be rescued by good samaritan nurses who turn crazy?

>I might be moving to Montana soon
>just to raise me up a crop of
>dental floss

I wrote down a bunch of notes regarding my thoughts on this (although from the perspective of a British Columbian) a few years ago, maybe some parts will be interesting to you.
>John Swanson and Henry Moody appear in 1900 (from my notes, unsure of significance of date). I think that Henry Moody might have interacted with Franz Boas as well.
>Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) is probably the first major writer to write about the area. Legends of Vancouver being alleged to have taken place in 1906, during a series of conversations between Tekahionwake and Chief Joe Capilano. Apparently Tekahionwake dies in 1913, and its around this time (or several years after) that Franz Boas starts publishing. Legends of Vancouver is significant for a variety of reasons. It presents itself as a collection of spoken legends, which nods to its predecessors not in the novel, but in the oral traditions of British Columbia, with it's motifs, stylistic tools, and history backing it up. One story that stands out is the Napoleon legend, which is an interesting nod to European history that also subsumes that history into the broader, and more important, history of British Columbia. That a charm given away by a dying chief could have such a massive impact on the course of European events is unbelievable, but not more so than a lot of what we read in history books.
>Franz Boas is also significant. First, his books are really well written and manage to capture in an objective manner the customs and history of First Nations in BC without trying to much to "explain" them. If I'm not mistaken Henry Moody was his translator, and helped him extensively... although I might be thinking of John Swanson (NOTE: I'm thinking of George Hunt, who was the big contributer to Boas' work.)
>Secondly, Franz Boas is significant because he had such a wide impact. Besides being hugely influential in the founding of anthropology as a discipline, he also had a huge impact on continental philosophy, George Bataille's "The Accursed Share" being written as a sort of study on Boas' "The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians" and Claude Levi-Strauss's work on the Pacific Northwest (La Voie des Masques).

Oregon, Washington. You're all Black folk. Just as bad as California in all the worst ways, but more meek and pining about it. I don't care if you're from hodunk forest oregon. You're all the same. Stop trying to bring Idaho to the party as if you're anything like them.

Probably too busy sucking wiener and begging for attention to have any sort of tradition

John Muir. One of America's most famous nature writers. The Pacific NW is iconic for its forested beauty. I'm sure there are others, but Muir is the only one I'm familiar with, given I'm from the east.

Frank Herbert was born in Tacoma and was inspired by the Oregon dunes.

Music is your thing, man. Music.

Harold Covington

anyone from this hell hole is just trying to get out

The epicenter of e-celeb-worshipping, Marxist, doestoyevsky/tolstoy-reading, pathetic, depressive, feminized, videogame-playing, outdoors-larping, perpetually online, joy division-listening, get-carsick and have-allergies, discord-using, korean film-watching losers

why is one of the most beautiful parts of the country filled with the absolute worst people imaginable? not just the queer bipocs and techbros in seattle, but literally everyone from the white trash on up is just awful

Portland anons ww@?