Posted on 06/29/2020 2:03:16 PM PDT by C19fan
Alexandra Duncan has canceled her young adult novel Ember Days mere days after its cover reveal on BookPage. An hour after Duncan posted the cover reveal for the book, which was slated for a March 2021 release from Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, to her Twitter feed, an author questioned the representation within the novel, which was noted in the book’s description: “Naomi is the granddaughter of a powerful Gullah conjure woman, sent to Charleston to combat an evil force circling the city and hiding in plain sight as Deidre’s protégé.” Duncan acknowledged the concern, responding, “I definitely struggled with whether it was okay for me to write about a culture outside my own and especially about the difficult topic of passing, which Naomi does for part of the book while going undercover in an all-white magical society,” further explaining that her decision to write from the perspective of a character with Gullah Geechee heritage stemmed from an interest in writing about folk magic traditions from “her area of the South.”
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I doubt many africans know what Gullah is.
The storyline sounds pretty stupid.
My daughter used to manage a children’s bookstore. She hates YA books. They are loaded with PC indoctrination.
She wishes someone would write a book with characters who just happen to be black without all the SJW undertones.
When will hair straightening by non-whites be considered cultural appropriation?
or wearing european/white clothing
or using our technology
like fridges, air conditioners, heaters, cars, stereos, electricity, computers, ...
living in european style housing
preparing and eating non-african food
Wasn’t the sculptor of the memorial to MLK, Jr. Chinese? Gotta tear it down!
And it’s only going to get worse. The correct response should have been “It’s my book, I decide what I’ll write about, if you don’t like it, don’t buy it.”
Fiction literature is hopelessly PC/SJW infested. My wife has written and self-published one YA fantasy novella on Amazon, finished a second, and is working on a third. She says she wouldn’t even commercially publish if she could get a book deal. It’s just too much of a minefield these days. Put one foot wrong anywhere along the line and you either get canceled or have to self-cancel, and the vast majority of people in the space are mega-liberal anyway so they immediately fold in a situation like this. And almost all the books nowadays are horrendously skewed with a post-modernist and politically far-left worldview.
There are a very few conservative or conservative-leaning sci-fi/fantasy authors out there—Sarah Hoyt, Larry Correia, John C. Wright among others—but they’re few and far between.
}:-)4
“few conservative or conservative-leaning sci-fi/fantasy authors out there—Sarah Hoyt, Larry Correia, John C. Wright among others”
Try Castalia House for non pc books, comics,etc.
http://www.castaliahouse.com/downloads/category/all/
Comics, books, home schooling, non pc, here including Alt-hero, :
A better link than the Castalia House one. Same people.
Can I still have fried chicken?
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