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On White People Losing Their Minds to America Dirt Crud. Again
So I’m making a brief blog post.
People may remember eber the controversy around American Dirt but not how much it pissed off Latine folks, especially authors. Pamela Paul (who has her own problems with being crap at research and manipulating reviews in her previous job for the NYT)
She decided to write another one-sided (her side) look at book controversy by making the Latine authors who made concise and reasonable critiques of the novel and how it got ridiculously propped up. (The linked article is not the only one)
I'm just taking this opportunity to share this video from one of the founders of Dignidad Literaria who was one of many Latine writers who criticized the novel for lifting from other authors (like from Luis Alberto Urrea’s By the Lake of Sleeping Children) and for the larger trend of Latin authors not being given the chance nor anywhere near as much compensation for their own stories Cummins watered down for her cheap thriller novel.
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Dr. Bowles is a prolific author, poet, translator, and professor (and a personal favorite academic of mine). I highly recommend his book, They Call Me Güero
"She's this middle-class, bookstore-owning woman who left Mexico with a small fortune in her pocket, like she was going to go to France or something. With inheritance money. With an ATM to her mom's life savings. And why did she leave? Because she was flirting with a drug lord who's now trying to kill her.”
If you want to hear more about the controversy give LatinoUSA’s podcast about it a listen.
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