{"id":1777,"date":"2010-11-16T11:45:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T09:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2010-11-17T02:38:14","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T00:38:14","slug":"10-books-that-challenged-white-male-literary-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/?p=1777","title":{"rendered":"10 books that challenged white, male literary dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>from Flavorwire.com, an apology of sorts:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/130187\/10-contemporary-books-that-challenged-white-male-literary-dominance\">Last week, we published a list of 10 essential books of the past 25 years. It was one of our most popular posts of all time, as well as one of our most contentious, racking up over 100 comments. Much of the argument has focused on the list\u2019s lack of diversity: of the 10 books, eight were written by white men.<br \/>\nSince best-of lists can\u2019t help but be subjective and flawed, and because there have been so many game-changing books by women and people of color in the past 25 years, we\u2019ve put together an alternate top 10 list.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>their list:<\/p>\n<p>Toni Morrison, <em>Beloved<\/em> (1987)<br \/>\nKhaled Husseini, <em>The Kite Runner<\/em> (2003)<br \/>\nDonna Tartt, <em>The Secret History<\/em> (1992)<br \/>\nMargaret Atwood, <em>The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em> (1985)<br \/>\nKazuo Ishiguro, <em>Never Let Me Go<\/em> (2005)<br \/>\nArundhati Roy, <em>The God of Small Things <\/em>(1997)<br \/>\nRoberto Bola\u00f1o, <em>2666<\/em> (2004)<br \/>\nChang-rae Lee, <em>Native Speaker<\/em> (1995)<br \/>\nMarjane Satrapi, <em>Persepolis<\/em> (2000)<br \/>\nJeanette Winterson,<em> Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit<\/em> (1985)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Flavorwire.com, an apology of sorts: Last week, we published a list of 10 essential books of the past 25 years. It was one of our most popular posts of all time, as well as one of our most contentious, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/?p=1777\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3,8,31,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-feminism","category-links","category-menmale-allies","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}