Whose life is it anyway? Novelists have their say on cultural appropriation
Hari Kunzru, Kamila Shamsie, Aminatta Forna and others on writing outside their experience.
Ask 'Did I find it easier to write about this because I filtered it through a white gaze and thus made it palatable for a largely white publishing industry? And most of all, and this bears repeating, don’t get defensive. Because you may be making a larger conversation about marginalised communities, and their ability to tell their own stories in their own voices, all about yourself.' ~ Nikesh Shukla
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