{"product_id":"impostors-christopher-l-miller-9780226591001","title":"Impostors: Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity","description":"Writing a new page in the surprisingly long history of literary deceit, \u003ci\u003eImpostors\u003c\/i\u003e 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 other identity. These writers were, in other words, literary usurpers and appropriators who trafficked in what Christopher L. Miller terms the \"intercultural hoax.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the United States, such hoaxes are familiar. Forrest Carter's \u003ci\u003eThe Education of Little Tree\u003c\/i\u003e and JT LeRoy's \u003ci\u003eSarah\u003c\/i\u003e are two infamous examples. Miller's contribution is to study hoaxes beyond our borders, employing a comparative framework and bringing French and African identity hoaxes into dialogue with some of their better-known American counterparts. In France, multiculturalism is generally eschewed in favor of universalism, and there should thus be no identities (in the American sense) to steal. However, as Miller demonstrates, this too is a ruse: French universalism can only go so far and do so much. There is plenty of otherness to appropriate. This French and Francophone tradition of imposture has never received the study it deserves. Taking a novel approach to this understudied tradition, \u003ci\u003eImpostors\u003c\/i\u003e examines hoaxes in both countries, finding similar practices of deception and questions of harm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher L. Miller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022659100X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226591001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/10\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Christopher L. Miller","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086418981119,"sku":"9780226591001","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8477b494-10bb-4dae-a780-f281c5ec486f.jpg?v=1769094564","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/impostors-christopher-l-miller-9780226591001","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}