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Impostors - Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity (Paperback)
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Impostors - Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity (Paperback)
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Writing a new page in the surprisingly long history of literary
deceit, Impostors examines a series of literary hoaxes, deceptions
that involved flagrant acts of cultural appropriation. This book
looks at authors who posed as people they were not, in order to
claim a different ethnic, class, or other identity. These writers
were, in other words, literary usurpers and appropriators who
trafficked in what Christopher L. Miller terms the "intercultural
hoax." In the United States, such hoaxes are familiar. Forrest
Carter's The Education of Little Tree and JT LeRoy's Sarah are two
infamous examples. Miller's contribution is to study hoaxes beyond
our borders, employing a comparative framework and bringing French
and African identity hoaxes into dialogue with some of their
better-known American counterparts. In France, multiculturalism is
generally eschewed in favor of universalism, and there should thus
be no identities (in the American sense) to steal. However, as
Miller demonstrates, this too is a ruse: French universalism can
only go so far and do so much. There is plenty of otherness to
appropriate. This French and Francophone tradition of imposture has
never received the study it deserves. Taking a novel approach to
this understudied tradition, Impostors examines hoaxes in both
countries, finding similar practices of deception and questions of
harm.
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