![]() ![]() American Dirt was quickly labelled “trauma porn”. ![]() When Gurba’s article was picked up by The New York Times, it went viral. Boasting of “zealously hate-reading the book”, Gurba accused Cummins of cultural appropriation (Cummins is not Mexican), of filling her novel with stereotypes, and of exploiting “the gringo appetite for Mexican pain”. The article, Pendeja, You Ain’t Steinbeck: My Bronca with Fake-Ass Social Justice Literature by Myriam Gurba, a self-identifying queer Mexican-American writer, called American Dirt “an obra de caca” (a work of shit). The truth of their humanity is this gap in the middle that I felt like many people haven’t really thought about, so I think that’s what they were responding to.”īut while early reviews were mostly positive, an extraordinarily vitriolic piece, published on an obscure academic blog called Tropics of Meta a month before the book came out, proved to be a game-changer. “We have these political narratives from the Right and the Left, and everyone paints migrants with their own preconceived notions either they need our help and we need to save them, or they’re rapists and murderers. “The ways in which we’re engaged in the story of migration in this country tend to be very superficial,” she says. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT. ![]()
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