Conquest

[Timothy Charles Campbell]

On Fri, 17 Mar 1995, Paul Delany wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
I'm not sure I quite follow.  How does textualizing history imperil 
political commitment?  Are you saying the point of the blurbs is 
to compensate for TP's lack of an effective political commitment in the 
fiction?  What novels then might show an effective political commitment?
	Tim Campbell