Quick links: whitewashing in YA fiction
Two links for you – The narrative we’re told/sold over again by Chally at Feministe, and Kids of Color and the New American Whitewashing by Colleen Mondor at Bookslut.
View ArticleNnedi Okorafor – Who Fears Death
This is postapocalyptic fantasy, but very much not in the Shannara or Shadowrun sense; it’s poetic and spare, without concerning itself with European fantasy tropes or the endless codification which is...
View ArticleThe asymmetry of erasure
(Or: some further thoughts on Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death.) The author tweeted that I’d pointed out something few others had, that there were almost no white people and no legends of white people....
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