Appropriate: A Provocation

by Paisley Rekdal

Book Overview

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? In Appropriate, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324003588
• ISBN13: 9781324003588
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.4"