Paisley Rekdal is the author of ten books of poetry and nonfiction, including Appropriate: A Provocation. The director of the American West Center and a distinguished professor of English at the University of Utah, she lives in Salt Lake City.
"Questions of cultural appropriation often crystallize most acutely
in works of literature, from William Styron to Jeanine Cummins.
Rekdal, a writing teacher, parses the issue to ask who is “allowed”
to write what, and in what contexts."
*New & Noteworthy - The New York Times*
"Creative writing professor Paisley Rekdal tackles the definition
of cultural appropriation and how it fits into our current
political climate in her collection of essays, structured as a
series of letters to an imagined student. Rekdal picks apart the
hotly debated topic of who gets to tell what story as she examines
the evolution of cultural appropriation as it pertains to
literature. In her scrutinization of authorship, Rekdal points to
bigger questions surrounding whiteness, identity and empathy."
*14 New Books You Should Read in February - Time*
"[Rekdal] speaks without condescension to young, ethically
conscious writers, and with an awareness that anti-racism is
necessarily a constant, ever-shifting struggle; those who presume
to have all the answers have got the question wrong."
*Bad Form Magazine*
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