For Kaleidoscope itself, we will only be allowing chromatic creators, but her works would qualify for our other challenges, such as Chromatic Yuletide.
But I'm glad you brought up Nancy Farmer anyway because I think it opens up discussion of the issues that can result when chromatic people and cultures are represented by outsiders, especially when that outsider POV is privileged. The sentence you quoted is very saddening--before seeing it, I would have argued that The Ear, the Eye and the Arm was a fairly good example of an outsider taking pains to write specifically about Zimbabwe and Zimbaweans rather than about a nebulous "Africa".
Also, in the light of the Amina Arraf hoax, I think a related issue is how we as consumers are given greater access and may even pay more attention to such privileged outsider accounts. The Ear, the Eye and the Arm was certainly one of my childhood favorites, but I also wonder how much I missed out by not reading a children's novel by a Zimbabwean writer instead.
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But I'm glad you brought up Nancy Farmer anyway because I think it opens up discussion of the issues that can result when chromatic people and cultures are represented by outsiders, especially when that outsider POV is privileged. The sentence you quoted is very saddening--before seeing it, I would have argued that The Ear, the Eye and the Arm was a fairly good example of an outsider taking pains to write specifically about Zimbabwe and Zimbaweans rather than about a nebulous "Africa".
Also, in the light of the Amina Arraf hoax, I think a related issue is how we as consumers are given greater access and may even pay more attention to such privileged outsider accounts. The Ear, the Eye and the Arm was certainly one of my childhood favorites, but I also wonder how much I missed out by not reading a children's novel by a Zimbabwean writer instead.