Impostors: Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity

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Writing a new page in the surprisingly long history of literary deceit, Impostors examines a series of literary hoaxes, deceptions that involved flagrant acts of cultural appropriation. This book looks at authors who posed as people they were not, in order to claim a different ethnic, class, or other identity. These writers were, in other words, literary usurpers and appropriators who trafficked in what Christopher L. Miller terms the "intercultural...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:022659100X

ISBN13:9780226591001

Release Date:December 2018

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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