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The Inauthenticity of our Class Discourse: or, Publishing Respects your Foodbank Usage

Sahota, Sunjeev
http://nonsite.org/the-inauthenticity-of-our-class-discourse-or-publishing-respects-your-foodbank-usage/

Publisher:  Nonsite
Date Written:  15/12/2024
Year Published:  2024  
Resource Type:  Article

I'm a British novelist and my fourth novel, The Spoiled Heart, came out -- in the U.K., U.S., and elsewhere -- in the spring of this year. It's a novel vexed with questions of class and race, with wondering which of these, for my characters, is central. I wrote a longish essay to make my own position clear and to speak candidly about how the left, including the publishing left, fails the poor and the working class.

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When the creative industries speak of the importance of authentic and accurate representations, and of avoiding harmful ones – setting aside what we even mean by those terms, setting aside, too, the question of community gatekeeping – are they advocating that what matters most in terms of social justice is anti-discrimination, a commitment to not perpetrate acts of cultural harm, or disrespect? And is focussing on respecting identities, along with representing identities, a way that publishing, however well-meaningly, fails to talk about class?
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