As I read and as I write, I always have jingling around my brain this idea that oppression makes art better. I do not know how true the idea is, but it trips through my synapses nonetheless. My one reader will have noticed this theme cropping up explicitly and implicitly here at the Jumbled Heap.
In his essay "Honey-Winged Song," David Rattray also explores the idea of what makes the world's hardship literature great.
I did not know of Rattray, but a week ago, Luke plugged my book-empt...