hi!! i hope this is the right place to ask and i apologise if not but i had a question about the book "the help" by kathryn stockett. i recently started reading it and was immediately uncomfortable with the way the white author writes the character aibileen in aave/bve. as i am a nonblack poc, i was looking for perspectives from members of the black community about this or about "the help" in general. i've already read some articles about how it's not a useful piece of media in terms of discussing racism and falls into white saviour tropes, but most articles i could find were fairly surface-level and almost exclusively about the movie. i was wondering if anyone knew of any posts or essays by black writers discussing "the help" and especially the meta-racism in its white authorship. thank you!
This is absolutely the place to ask!!! Please don't apologize. Unfortunately because the movie is like from early tumblr I don't know if I've even seen anyone react to just the book version? much less Black bloggers. HOwever! I've done some preliminary searching on the academic sites and saved a few articles that looked promising. I'll try to get to it this weekend. I'll update and reblog my findings here on this post!
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