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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 hoax.” In the United States, such hoaxes are familiar. Forrest Carter’s __The Education of Little Tree__ and JT LeRoy’s __Sarah__ are two infamous examples. Miller’s contribution is to study hoaxes beyond our borders, employing a comparative framework and bringing French and African identity hoaxes into dialogue with some of their better-known American counterparts. In France, multiculturalism is generally eschewed in favor of universalism, and there should thus be no identities (in the American sense) to steal. However, as Miller demonstrates, this too is a ruse: French universalism can only go so far and do so much. There is plenty of otherness to appropriate. This French and Francophone tradition of imposture has never received t

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Author

Christopher L. Miller

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226591148

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities