Showing posts with label Yellowface. Show all posts
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Friday, December 29, 2023

Misfits, Yellowface

 Tiny misfits order this week

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mainly about the pot of chili from World Central Kitchen I plan to make to go into the New Year, with a green salad.

And I've read a sample of this, now waiting for my turn at the library. It's a novel about a westerner, a writer, whose wildly successful young Asian writer friend dies suddenly, leaving a powerful manuscript unpublished. She presents it as her own, and I'm waiting to find out how it goes. 


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It's a reflection on appropriation of currently sought after minority identity, cultural assumptions, plagiarism, and I expect more. Very readable, so I hope my turn comes soon.

End Game didn't come through with the hoped for forecasting about the English establishment, but it was okay, much of it I knew from other sources.

And speaking of different viewpoints, here's one

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 And here's a favorite viewpoint. I love her buildings, much more than the flower paintings. They're quieter, eloquent.

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Happy last weekend of the year,everyone, enjoy it like all the others. I started my own new year on my birthday, with the poem a day. Which I'll go and read now.

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