College English
Sep 2008
Teaching Cross-Racial Texts: Cultural Theft in The Secret Life of Bees
Abstract
Author Sue Monk Kidd, who is white, employs stereotypes of African Americans and problematically appropriates features of black writing in her novel “The Secret Life of Bees”. Nevertheless, this book is worth teaching, not only because it has acquired much cultural capital but also because it offers students a way to examine relationships between whites and blacks in American literature and culture.
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- College English
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- 2008-09-01
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- 10.58680/ce20086737
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