Item #59876 Appropriate: A Provocation. Paisley Rekdal.

Appropriate: A Provocation

New York: Norton, 2021. First edition. Paperback. 223pp. Octavo [21cm]. Illustrated wraps. New. Item #59876
ISBN: 9781324003588

"How do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? Creative writing professor Paisley Rekdal addresses a young writer to delineate how the idea of cultural appropriation has evolved and perhaps calcified in our political climate. What follows is a penetrating exploration of fluctuating literary power and authorial privilege, about whiteness and what we really mean by the term empathy, that examines writers from William Styron to Peter Ho Davies to Jeanine Cummins."

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