It’s a precise representation of postcolonial intersectional feminist debut writing, winning much deserved praise. The story is told in fragments and explores the power struggles, she encounters mediated by race, class, gender, nationality, age, or place. Namrata Poddar’s Border Less (7.13 Books) centers Dia Mittal, an airline call center attendant who travels from India to America. It’s a richly researched deeply probed exploration of love and justice. Natashia Deón’s The Perishing (Counterpoint) focuses on an immortal Black woman in 1930s Los Angeles who attempts to uncover lost memories about who she was and continues to be. That’s why we need to celebrate these two women of color whose journeys are so spectacular and most definitely worth our attention. Over seventy-five percent of published authors are white. The Lee and Low Diversity survey from 2019 notes that in America, only seven percent of published writers are South Asian, Asian or Native Hawaiian, and only five percent are Black, Afro-American, or Caribbean. As I work toward the release of my own memoir, I am mesmerized by the brilliance of their work, but mostly, amazed at the camaraderie, support, and mutual cheering-on that’s pure, sincere, and exciting. Kwon published the much anticipated list of 2022 women writers of color showing just how many of us are writing-and still writing.
The women writers of color are producing spectacular work lately, almost as if the world-pandemic included-cannot control us anymore.
0 kommentar(er)
