Jul 30, 2017 · 1 min read
I call this a Liberationist Theme. It usually accompanies an identity-politics narrative, some black-POC/womyn/gay/trans/etc protagonist who liberates themselves (or, to use the language of Maslow, self-actualizes) away from the white supremacist/patriarchal/CIS normative power structure.
It’s all quite stale and boring — give me a good, old-fashioned, unsympathetic protagonist a la Dostoevsky or Graham Greene or Flannery O’Connor.