Craving Authenticity
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Percival Everett, American academic, and author of the acclaimed novel Erasure - the story of an obscure black writer whose critical parody of an illiterate ghetto memoir submitted under an assumed name becomes, to his chagrin, a publishing sensation - will talk to novelists Fay Weldon and Diran Adebayo about the bedevilled idea of authenticity in literature. Can the voice of the streets ever properly express itself in literature, or is this the wrong medium? Is the hunt for the authentic futile? Weldon, whose own female voice has widened the range of our literature, is author of many books including Letters to Alice, and The Fat Woman's Joke. Adebayo's novels are the award-winning Some Kind of Black, and My One Upon A Time.
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