Here is another excellent post from KC Redding-Gonzalez!
Zombie Salmon (the Horror Continues)
When we look at the tradition of Horror, we tend to embrace its ethnocentrism as a characteristic of the genre – a living trope, if you will.
We think that the construction of the genre happened in a Western vacuum and that there exists some kind of “proof” that no one else shares in the tradition of true scary tale telling. It is as though it is not legitimate if it is not published in an English-speaking country and contains predictable Western characters living out a familiar plot. We point at the acknowledged (and therefore “official”) history of Horror without recognizing that those who have judged our stories and uplifted the genre’s profile to (at times) cult status have also been “traditionally” white and male and Western – the same ones who historically controlled the presses and the public’s choice of content and access to the written word. Are we…
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Translation is something that always slips by us… even when it hides as editing… We really do need to dip our toes in different waters, and give Horror in other voices a chance!
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I completely agree with you.
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