OK. I'm not sure if we're actually at odds here, or if we're having a language problem, or if we are nodding along to the same argument but coming up with different conclusions.
I think it's very case-by-case, and I probably would have abdicated Thomas' story for the same reasons that you did. But in less extreme cases ... as an under-represented voice, and as a general rule, I will put up with Memoirs of a Geisha for Geisha of Gion. And if well-intentioned, relatively-informed white people won't write about Thomas, then white people who aren't as well-intentioned or as well-informed will. So will actual Indians, of course, but I don't like their odds in that market.
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Date: 2007-10-02 02:59 am (UTC)I think it's very case-by-case, and I probably would have abdicated Thomas' story for the same reasons that you did. But in less extreme cases ... as an under-represented voice, and as a general rule, I will put up with Memoirs of a Geisha for Geisha of Gion. And if well-intentioned, relatively-informed white people won't write about Thomas, then white people who aren't as well-intentioned or as well-informed will. So will actual Indians, of course, but I don't like their odds in that market.