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Othering Authors in the Name of Authenticity: Critiquing Colonialism with The Arab of the Future
- Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 58, Number 4, 2020
- pp. 22-30
- 10.1353/bkb.2020.0066
- Article
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Abstract:
Mark D. McCarthy argues that the genre of graphic memoir troublingly lends itself to an affirmation of the West while audiences make this affirmation invisible by naming the authors Other. He asserts that when authors are "inside" another culture and their text aligns with Western values, the West and its worldview are affirmed from outside.