Are questions related to the history and influences on the SF genre out of scope?

Question

I recently asked a question regarding a specific time frame of the SF/horror genre, and I'm wondering if it is considered on-topic for this forum. The question touches on literary and political history, as well as philosophy, but all of it centered on impact to the SF genre in the 1920s/30s. The question itself arose from commentary on a specific 1927 SF/horror novel.

The question in question is:

What was the 1920's/1930's SF/horror “literary ghetto”?

Is the above question on topic? If not, is there a way to make it on-topic, or should it be removed?

It seems to me that Literature SE would be overly broad in scope for this question.

Answer 1

Questions of this type are rare but on-topic here.

We have a terminology tag and a history-of tag, both of which have a good history of being used for questions which didn't end up closed as off-topic, and both of which seem very pertinent to your question. I haven't seen very many questions like yours here, but it seems to fall within the site's scope, and an expert on the sci-fi genre would be the best person to answer it.

Bear in mind, though, that although questions of this type are OK, most of the (non-story-ID) questions here are about specific works of sci-fi or fantasy. This has meant that our community of 'experts' has gravitated more towards experts in specific SF/F universes rather than experts in the history of the genre. We have a lot of Harry Potter experts, Star Trek experts, Doctor Who experts, and so on, but fewer history-of-scifi experts. We do have a few of the latter, though, and hopefully someone will be able to answer your question.

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_{Since you mention Literature SE, I'll add that this would also be on-topic there. Note that Literature is a much smaller and less active site than SFF, so you'd probably get less eyeballs on your question there ... but on the other hand, terminology / history-of-literature questions like this one are (proportionally) more common there. It's your choice where to post, since it's on-topic on two different sites, but do pick just one of them rather than cross-posting on both sites.}