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I’m fairly sure the person I was interacting with had bought the gospel of literature as social work hook, line and barbed sinker. I’m fairly sure that she didn’t realize the “write to change the world” is just a “social marker” of “real literature” (i.e. that the writer has had an excellent education and knows how to signal it.) I do know it because I not only studied literature, but I studied history of literature and literature criticism. Also, I grew up in a country with a long history. What is now signaled by this “concern for representation of the voiceless” (is this why you guys get so upset when the supposed voiceless shout back? Bah. You ain’t got nothing. Serious revolutionaries silence the “voiceless” before speaking for them. You’re Bush league.) and “writing for social change” is what used to be signaled by putting vast undigested classical quotes in your work, or (like Kit Marlowe) writing your stage directions in Latin. All it means is “I’m special and better than these people and I deserve special consideration and treatment.” —Sarah A. Hoyt, But Frankly, I Don’t Like Your Tone