![]() ![]() "If you have always seen yourself portrayed as the hero in movies and TV shows and literature, you are disqualified from deciding whether seeing yourself matters. This is a very big assumption, as Daniel José Older, author of Shadowshaper, told me. Rosoff is arguing here that marginalized people do not, or should not, get anything from seeing themselves in literature. The children's book world is getting far too literal about what 'needs' to be represented…" But Rosoff countered, "You don't have to read about a queer black boy to read a book about a marginalised child. Campbell felt more of such books were needed. Johnson and Kendrick Daye, a self-published children's book with a queer Black protagonist. In a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.Ĭampbell was excited by the book Large Fears, by Myles E. Books aren't bound by time or place or culture. "To be or not to be" echoes the same for poor Afghanis or wealthy prep school Britishers you can learn about bullfighting from Hemingway whether you're Ralph Ellison or Camille Paglia (both Hemingway fans). The best books, we like to think, are universal. ![]() And one of the main ways in which marginalized people are stereotyped is through representing them as…well, marginal. It's important for marginalized people to be portrayed as fully human, rather than as stereotypes. ![]()
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