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Hari Kunzru (International) assertion Hari Kunzru i(A116088 works by)
Born: Established: 1969 ;
Gender: Male
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1 Outside Ethnicity Hari Kunzru , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The New York Times Book Review , 8 June vol. 113 no. 23 2008; (p. 8)

— Review of The Boat Nam Le , 2008 selected work short story

Kunzru suggests in this review that 'The Boat is transparently a product of the increasingly formalized milieu in which American writers train — a well-wrought collection that, in its acute self-consciousness, trails a telltale whiff of 'the industry' that is its initial concern, of the 'heap of fellowship and job applications' the fictional Le needs 'to draft and submit' when he’s interrupted by his father. 'Ethnic lit' is unhappily what emerges when identity politics head into the marketing meeting [...]. Le is starting to grapple with the subtleties of authenticity, but one comes away feeling that it’s not really his subject, that he has a future as a very different kind of writer.'

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