![]() ![]() ![]() “If you think about what the colours and faces and the backgrounds of our young people are in all of our public schools, and then you look at the writers who this society valorizes, the disconnect is intergalactic.” Thank goodness there’s a renewed furor, and Anand’s short stories are a contribution. “The literary world has tripled down on its whiteness,” he told writer Rachel Kaanzi Ghadsah. Ten-year-old Sunny is finding it hard to get used to her big brother Dale’s. But when Dale comes back, she STILL misses him. In a recent New York Times Magazine profile of Toni Morrison, Junot Diaz contextualized the road ahead by looking at the industry’s reaction to the grand dame’s victories. Sunny misses her brother Dale, whos been sent to boarding school. It has left a pall over the house, and Sunny is constantly missing her older brother, who had once been fun and loving. Diversity is crucial - if not critical - to the survival of our national literary tradition acknowledging the existence of different kinds of readers isn’t just the enlightened approach, it’s good business. Grades 4 and up Dale, who had been getting into trouble with drugs and his friends, has been sent off to military school. It’s a smart, maybe sly way of exploring identity without being ghettoized due to subject matter, as well as crumbling the myth of placid multiculturalism in the continually bland and exclusive world of Canadian literature. 29 Total Resources 2 Awards View Text Complexity Discover Like Books. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Ten-year-old Sunny is finding it hard to get used to her big brother Dale’s. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]()
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