Wednesday, February 28, 2018

This Author Rewrote Her YA Novel To Be Less Racially Insensitive. Did It Work? (*Could* It Work?)

Both Keira Drank and her publisher thought that her novel The Continent would be well-received, and, at first, it was. Then came the tweetstorms accusing Drake of writing a white-savior story and stereotyping. She took the criticisms to heart and reworked her text. Lila Shapiro reports on what happened next.



Article source here:Arts Journal

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