Some ridiculous ideological cant, well exposed. Keep working and keep submitting, whoever you are, if you’ve got the goods!
Gabbert has effectively done away with imagination. She has reduced art to dressed-up autobiography. That’s why “colonization” is an omnipresent danger. Since all art is predicated on personal history, a white male in Minneapolis should not write about an Afro-Cuban lesbian in Havana; doing so steals from Afro-Cuban, Havanan lesbians their stories.
But the whole point of imagination is that it is borderless.
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Gabbert’s view of art destroys art’s universality — what Aristotle called “general truths,” which are the stuff of the poet, as opposed to the “particular facts” in which the historian traffics. For this reason, said Aristotle, poetry is more philosophical than history.
(source: Elisa Gabbert: Blunt Instrument Column—Advice for White Males)