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Fiction -- Authorship.
English fiction -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Minority authors -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Minority authors -- United States -- Biography.
Cultural pluralism in literature.
Literature and race.
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Letters to a writer ...
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Letters to a writer of color / edited by Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro.
New York : Random House, [2023]
Subjects
Fiction -- Authorship.
English fiction -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Minority authors -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Minority authors -- United States -- Biography.
Cultural pluralism in literature.
Literature and race.
Authors and readers.
ISBN:
9780593449417 (paperback) :
059344941X (paperback)
Description:
vi, 263 pages ; 21 cm
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Contents:
On Origin Stories / Taymour Soomro -- On Structure / Madeleine Thien -- On Authenticity / Amitava Kumar -- On Humor / Tahmima Anam -- On Character / Tiphanie Yanique -- On Trauma / Ingrid Rojas Contreras -- On Translation / Xiaolu Guo -- On Queerness / Zeyn Joukhadar -- On Telling and Showing / Jamil Jan Kochai -- On the Inactive Protagonist / Vida Cruz-Borja -- On Crime Fiction / Femi Kayode -- On Violence / Nadifa Mohamed in conversation with Leila Aboulela -- On Art and Activism / Myriam Gurba -- On the Second Person / Kiese Laymon -- On Political Fiction and Fictional Politics / Mohammed Hanif -- On Reception and Resilience / Sharlene Teo -- On the Ideal Conditions for Writing / Deepa Anappara.
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"These seventeen essays by celebrated writers of color start a more inclusive conversation about storytelling and encourage readers and writers to re-evaluate the codes and conventions that have shaped their assumptions about how fiction should be written. Edited by Deepa Anappara, author of Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, and Taymour Soomro, author of Other Names for Love, this anthology features writers from around the world, from a diversity of backgrounds and across genres, including: American Dirt critic Myriam Gurba, who describes the circle of Latina writers she has always worked within; award-winning novelist Tahmima Anam, who writes about giving herself permission to be funny as an artist of color; and New York Times opinion columnist Mohammed Hanif, who recalls censorship he experienced at the hands of political authorities. Combining memoir with aspects of craft, this book asks readers and writers to be more inclusive not only in what they read, but how they read, and introduces them to diverse storytelling traditions and techniques. Filled with important questions about the state of fiction and what the future might hold, this is a touchstone for aspiring and working writers and for curious readers everywhere"--
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