5/9/2023 0 Comments Wendy c ortiz excavation![]() And My Dark Vanessa would shortly afterward find itself caught in the same narrative. ![]() So for many observers, the amount of money and resources publishing had poured into American Dirt showed that the industry is only willing to reward the stories of brown people when they are told by white people, and when they play into white people’s preexisting and inaccurate ideas. Meanwhile, authors of color rarely receive the kind of lavish advance or institutional support that American Dirt did. ![]() (Cummins has identified at times as a white woman and at times as Latina she has a Puerto Rican grandmother.) But when American Dirt came out in January, Chicano readers heavily criticized Cummins for her use of offensive tropes and clichés, noting pointedly that Cummins is not of Mexican descent. ![]() American Dirt is a thriller about a woman and her young son fleeing Mexico for the US, and its author Jeanine Cummins received a seven-figure advance and massive early publicity, including a blurb from Stephen King. At the end of January, while publishing was still convulsing in the throes of the American Dirt scandal, a new literary controversy emerged that threatened to surpass American Dirt entirely: the story of a major new forthcoming novel, My Dark Vanessa.Īnd at first glance, American Dirt and My Dark Vanessa appeared to share some essential DNA. ![]()
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