Impostors: Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity

by Christopher L. Miller

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022659100X
• ISBN13: 9780226591001
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"