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Novelist. Won: Astounding, BFA Newcomer. Dabbles: history, costumes, sensitivity reads, #booknails. She/they. Repped by @jenniegoloboy

North East, England
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    Jeannette Ng 吳志麗‏ @jeannette_ng 6 Sep 2020

    If we’re having conversations about authenticity and representation and what we are to ourselves, here is an essay I wrote a while back about the acute discomfort of how true stories can feed stereotypes and how much I hate navigating that. https://medium.com/@nettlefish/on-identity-performing-marginalisations-and-the-limitations-of-ownvoices-or-why-i-cant-just-34880d560a09 …pic.twitter.com/6rdQ7lLf1Z

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    The thing about those books wasn’t that they were inauthentic trauma porn. They were beautifully written and heartfelt, grounded in true experiences. Many were meticulously researched. They were written by Chinese women and I have no reason to doubt their work or their motives for writing. I’m sure for many of them, this was what they wanted to write, what spoke to them, the themes and characters and topics that inspired. This isn’t me trying to decry the pressures to perform one’s marginalisations or trying to say that they’ve all been boxed in by the expectations of their publishers.
But all the same, in aggregate, these books fed into a larger story about Chinese womanhood and American immigration. In aggregate, the details of individual stories fall away and the larger dominant cultural narrative takes hold. China itself features as a sequence of regressive and repressive regimes, all of them silencing and sexist.
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      2. Frankie Huang 黄秋隐‏ @ourobororoboruo 6 Sep 2020
        Replying to @jeannette_ng

        I can’t read this and not think about Amy Tan’s success and the expectation her readers have for strange, sad stories from the orient.

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      3. Jeannette Ng 吳志麗‏ @jeannette_ng 7 Sep 2020
        Replying to @ourobororoboruo

        being made to read amy tan in my teenage years by white teachers is one of my defining memories

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      1. Lorekeeper Jes‏ @JesWrites 8 Sep 2020
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        I've been thinking a lot recently about Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, given to my by my white feminist aunt when I was 13 & which I loved, but have since realized might never have come to me if I weren't being gifted a specific kind of white US feminism with it.

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