Shweta Ganesh Kumar shared with me this TED Talk from novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about how "a single story" about another person or country can cause critical misunderstanding, and I felt that the talk really reflected why I started this blog. Please watch it below, if you haven't already: I sometimes teach creative writing to children and teens and have been very shocked to see that the first impulse of my students - all Filipinos or Chinese Filipinos ages 11-15 - is to write stories featuring characters with blond hair and blue eyes. It seems that, like the seven-year-old Adichie, my students have "a single story" about what literature is and do not think that people like them can exist in literature. (Needless to say, I am now trying to expose my students to more Filipino literature and literature from other Asian countries.) I blog because our students, nieces and nephews, children, grandchildren, and godchildren NEED AND DESERVE more than "a ...
I absolutely adore your blog. I don't know why I've never seen it before.
ReplyDelete*blush* Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI hope this means you'll be joining the party celebrating Asian children's and YA books from around the world, heeheehee. =D
Tarie. Thanks so much for your support of my INDIE award winning book, "Red, White and Blue." I realize that it's quite outside the realm of your expertise and passion.... but a lover of the book, is a lover of the book.
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Awesome. Ever onward!!
No problem, Debbie. I am a lover of all quality kidlit and YA lit! :o)
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