We watched some of the Oscars last night - DVRing through the highlights. We're visiting with good friends from India, and they were very happy with all the wins for Slumdog. I haven't seen it yet, but they told me it was being dismissed as "poverty porn" by some critics.
I must admit, I had no idea.
Today another friend posted about the ridiculousness of rejecting works like Slumdog merely because they are set among the poor.
I had missed this critical trend altogether.
I knew that lots of serious lit today
is written by profs about life in college towns,
but I hadn't known that tours among the poor
had taken a turn toward the big thumbs down.
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