Except the whole essay was about the failure of that supposedly rich literary output to impact on her childhood experiences with literature, "genre" literature or not, and thus on her ability to write from a valid perspective that reflects her own culture. And I would make an argument that a culture creative's strength is better measured in the breadth of its creative output and the access to that output than the few geniuses who prevail over circumstances, but -

- my original comment was about you being an asshole perpetrating pretty blatant passive aggressive superiority towards two women I respect, not about whether or not good literature exists outside of the West.