Impostors : literary hoaxes and cultural authenticity /
Writing a new page in the surprisingly long history of literary deceit, Impostors examines a series of literary hoaxes, deceptions that involved flagrant acts of cultural appropriation. This book looks at authors who posed as people they were not, in order to claim a different ethnic, class, or othe...
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Chicago, IL :
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. The land of the free and the home of the hoax
- Slave narratives and white lies
- The Forrest and The Tree
- Danny Santiago and the ethics of ethnicity
- Go ask Amazon
- "I never saw it as a hoax": JT Leroy
- Margaret B. Jones, Misha Defonseca, and "stolen suffering"
- Minority literature and postcolonial theory
- French and francophone, fraud and fake
- What is a (French) author?
- Part 2. The French paradox and the francophone problem
- The real, the romantic, and the fake in the nineteenth century
- The single-use hoax: Diderot's La Religieuse
- Merimee's Illyrical Illusions
- Bakary Diallo: fausse-bonte
- Elissa Rhais, literacy, and identity
- Sex and temperament in postwar hoaxing: Boris Vian and Raymond Queneau
- Camara lie? two African classics between canonicity and oblivion
- Gary/Ajar: the hoaxing of the Goncourt prize and the making-cute of the Immigrant
- Who is Chimo? sex, lies, and death in the Banlieue
- Part 3. I can't believe it's not Beur: Jack-Alain Léger, Paul Smail, and Vivre Me Tue
- Before "Paul Smail"
- Vivre Ne Tue (living kills me, or smile)
- The popular press reads Vivre Me Tue
- Smail speaks (by fax)
- The Leak
- Did “Hundreds” of Readers Write to Paul Smaïl?
- Truth and Lies à la Léger
- The Scholars Weigh In
- Azouz Begag’s Outrage and the Right to Write
- Reading: A Choice?
- The Parts He Played.