Conquest

[Paul Delany]

Kirkpatrick Sale has also published recently *Conquest of Paradise*,
a revisionist view of Columbus and his legacy. Also books about
bioregionalism and the environment.
  This raises the question - don't groan too loudly, please - of
where we situate TP vis-a-vis *Political Correctness* Has he said
anything explicit about this?
  My tentative answer: TP's preference for a textualised historical
milieu in his fiction has something to do with a desire to avoid
committing himself directly on immediate contemporary issues. The
anonymity helps too. Norman Mailer might be a good example of a
writer destroying his talent by an obsession with the politics of the
moment."The strongest poison ever known . . . "
  Paul Delany, SFU