Impostors : literary hoaxes and cultural authenticity / Christopher L. Miller.
Impostors : literary hoaxes and cultural authenticity / Christopher L. Miller.
Impostors : literary hoaxes and cultural authenticity / Christopher L. Miller.
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Publisher
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
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G 2019/0244
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Language
English
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Physical content
x, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Part 1. The land of the free and the home of the hoax -- Slave narratives and white lies -- The Forrest and The Tree -- Danny Santiago and the ethics of ethnicity -- Go ask Amazon -- "I never saw it as a hoax": JT Leroy -- Margaret B. Jones, Misha Defonseca, and "stolen suffering" -- Minority litera...
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Publisher
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
2018.
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Summary
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, li...
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Impostors : literary hoaxes and cultural authenticity / Christopher L. Miller.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-232) and index.
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©2018
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G 2019/0244
Record Identifier
74VKV03BlKZM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV03BlKZM
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ISBN
9780226590950 hardcover alkaline paper
022659095X hardcover alkaline paper
9780226591001 paperback alkaline paper
022659100X paperback alkaline paper
DDC
098.3
MMS ID
991024225297502626
