# As an addendum to this: no, it isn't fair that minority authors are often corralled into minority fiction and said to write about the minority experience. On the other hand, since so few other people are writing about the minority experience, it's a lose-lose situation. I do think that limiting minority authors to the minority experience is very much like limiting female authors to the female experience, but... BUT! seeing the minority experience as a limiting factor can very much be as denigrating as the whole "OMG women writing about female things, the horror!"
There's an essay in Amy Tan's "The Opposite of Fate" writing memoir about whether she considers herself a minority writer and what that entails, especially as far as her responsibility for portraying Asians in a positive light goes. Of course, I can't think of the title of the essay now, but it's in the last section of the book if you're interested.
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Thu, Jun. 1st, 2006 08:16 pm (UTC)There's an essay in Amy Tan's "The Opposite of Fate" writing memoir about whether she considers herself a minority writer and what that entails, especially as far as her responsibility for portraying Asians in a positive light goes. Of course, I can't think of the title of the essay now, but it's in the last section of the book if you're interested.