Yo, what's with the epidemic of shitty ethnic writers that everyone is praising like the second coming of Jesus?

They are profitable, OP. Your even asking this question suggests ignorance of market trends or perhaps an interpretation of art for its own sake, neither of which are any longer generally useful. If you were a publisher, and someone with a non-Anglophone name suddenly became a success in the most profitable literary market—the Anglophones—then if you were part of an industry of trash and exploitation, like most publishers, you would try to recruit more authors with similar backgrounds and names and non-normative experiences to capitalize on their identities to profit from their success. You live in an unashamedly capitalist society in which its participants are ignorant of their roles in propping up marketing and consumption. The second coming of Jesus, as you write, can easily be interpreted as an annual trend. There's nothing profound here. Just praise to celebrity and banking on stupidity.

Also Homer, Herodotus and every other greek writer who came from modern day Turkey would be considered 'of color' if they were alive today.
Same goes for St Augustine

>ethnic writers
>kadare still didn't get the Nobel

i started reading zadie smith today.
bretty gud so far.

>Known as an "Instapoet" for the traction she gains online with her poetry that deals with violence, abuse and femininity
>"Instapoet"

> (OP)
>i started reading zadie smith today.
>bretty gud so far.

>Read White Teeth.
>Muslims join a terrorist cell
>whole novel is a "he dindu nuffin he a good boy"

I'm an Albanian but I've never read Kadare. Is he actually good?

You're wrong because those places they were from used to be part of the West.

Those who praise them would not praise the second coming of Jesus.

Nice try Mehmet

>olive-skinned people with light hair and eyes would be considered black or arab today because arabs now occupy their neighboring territory after throwing out the natives

Stupid Veeky Forums tier thread.
Delete.

>he knows what Homer looked like

how can one board be so elitist and self-hating

Jesus Christ user how is that even remotely possible? DO IT NIGGER

Especially because he was ethnic

t. resentful boomer hippie

white as snow

t. Een

So deeply moving.

Do women only know to write about being a woman?

mate I know you're probably memeing me but you're a daft cunt if you think even fairer mediterraneans were considered white in most anglo-sphere countries even 50 years ago
fucking the Irish weren't even considered white in America until after the Civil War and they're probably the whitest of the Europeans

New born babies are ugly as fuck, all blobby and saggy with that creepy seethrough burn victim skin

In old BBC shows, sometimes they use Indian actors to play Spanish/Italians

yes, unfortunately for them their just inferior to us white males

Homer didn't know what Homer looked like.

>fucking the Irish weren't even considered white in America until after the Civil War

Thats an exaggerated myth

there were irish in founding fathers you dolt

yeah dude southern italians and spainards get pretty fuckin dark, there's a reason northerners dont like them

irish were the lowest of the low aside from blacks until the fuckin 1960s i dont know why thats so hard to accept

> (You)
>yes, unfortunately for them their just inferior to us white males
I can hear your autistic screeching and lack of arguments over here, dear.

You do realise that the ancient greeks are genetically a completely different ethnicity from modern day greeks, or any other faquads inhabiting their territory of yore, right?
>inducing lackluster conclusions to support your race-based worldview from shades of marble statues
cm0n now

Good thing it's now right now

>i dont know why thats so hard to accept

Because thats patently bullshit, there were plenty of people of Irish descent succeeding in the US and elsewhere since Revolutionary Days. You're mistaking historical equivalent of /pol/ shitposting with actual socio-economic reality

As were there successful black people in the North since Revolutionary days too, doesn't mean they weren't still the lowest run of the socio-economic ladder. My parents and siblings were beat up for being Irish Catholic, and de-facto excluded from the certain workplaces, shops etc. growing up and that was in the 60s. That was admittedly in bumfuck nowhere and I'm not saying they didn't otherwise live relatively normal lives, but the change that occurred from the 70s onward has been enormous - and it was only worse the further back in history you go.

>That was admittedly in bumfuck nowhere

Yeah thats pretty damn important, think about how those hicks would have fared if they tried to move to Boston.

Will do.

if you are talking about genetics, then modern greeks are similar to the mycenaeans etc.
nature.com/nature/journal/v548/n7666/full/nature23310.html

If you are talking about culture, the greeks have been using the same language since the middle bronze age, few languages in the world have survived more than 3500 years. Also the fact that the greeks never stopped copying the ancient texts, homeric, hesiodic, platonic and aristotelian scholarship continued through the middle ages when in the latin west knowledge of ancient greek was almost nonexistent. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustathius_of_Thessalonica.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tzetzes
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_of_Ephesus
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustratius_of_Nicaea
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Metochites
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arethas_of_Caesarea
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Psellos
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Palimpsest
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_scholars_in_the_Renaissance

underrated

The near east used to be white. Even after the Arab invasion some whites remain as seen in Syria

Not only is this false it's also irrelevant

>races aren't 100% pure therefore racial difference does not exist

>TFW I read 'convinced' as 'conceived'

That sounded so much better.

Bad books have always gotten undeserved attention, "progressiveness" is just the new hip marketing strategy.

>when your reading comprehension is so poor that you can't identify the actual arguments that have been made and assume other arguments have been made

So, never

AYO HOL UP
>*drinks Mountain Dew*
SO YOU BE SAYIN
>*posts pepe memes*
SO LEMME GET DIS STRAIGHT
>*gets beat by antifa*
AY SO YOU BE SAYIN
>*shoots up a church*
DAT WE WUZ BABYLONIANS AND SHIEET?

...

The Force Awakens is objectively bad.

That's literally from a parody 'article'/piece.
The people who attempt to use it seriously are completely ignorant of where it comes from.

Really wrong. If anything Greece and Southern Europe were browner than today, before the Islam/Christianity divide

/thread

Boston Irish aren't exactly high society. Their reaction to getting beaten and burnt out in the middle of the night and NINA signs was pretty much what /pol/ thinks the Jews/Muslims would do to a city. They took political control of the city through politicizing the immigrant proletariat. Kennedy being a commie and a Roman Catholic from Boston who loved niggers was exactly why he got shot.

It's not. Punch magazine, whilst satirical, sincerely did believe the Irish were inferior to Anglo-Saxons. This kind of attitude was not uncommon in British society.

Seriously, their cartoons of the Irish are the same kind of obscene racist caricatures /pol/ is still drawing about blacks today. Depicting them as a bunch of animalistic, savage brutes.

>everyone is praising
Everyone is praising Rupi Kaur??

On Veeky Forums no, IRL yes.

>non-white
>female
>face like jeremy clarkson so people feel good for calling her beautiful
>still western and privileged enough for people to relate to unlike those real third worlders who have boring real problems and don't even speak english

she has all the desired markers of identity politics while still being part of the elite, she's the perfect champagne socialist pajeet pet

What I want to know is why Veeky Forums talks about it so much

Ive only ever heard of her on Veeky Forums

Was this written by a teenager?

This. op is likely a fan calling an airstrike on his own position. For cheap heat on a name nobody gives a shit about.

She's but a tiny ant compared to a titan like Gloria Tesch,

youtube.com/watch?v=X4OYYjXWCoI

The easiest, path-of-least-resistance way to appear woke to your espresso-sniffing friends is to namedrop some pretty brown girls ground like cute little empowered coffee beans beneath the unrelenting pressure of whiteboy privilege.

The alternative is actually reading books with information in them and shit. You do the math.

She's got nearly 100,000 ratings/reviews on Goodreads alone. And I think a couple million Instagram followers. Hardly "unknown" outside of here.

Non-whites will never be able to create art on the same level as whites.
So they need to do affirmative action with mediocre brown writers in order to make them feel better.

The sad thing is that you guys will think I'm trolling.

Every time I go to chapters I see her shitty books being promoted.

>90 page book of "poems"
>8 words on a page

>ONLY $14.99 GOY! SUCH A REASONABLE PRICE!

Is that supposed to be her hand on her belly or her pussy hair?

>We cannot divorce the discussion of identity politics in literature from the expressed mission of the American university in the twenty-first century: what kind of knowledge it seeks to impart to students, what conditions it feels are ideal for learning, and how the study of literature and the practice of creative writing fit into this plan as an operational matter. This is, perhaps, a debate where academic collegiality is incompatible with imaginative writing, which most would agree is nonconformist, solitary, often opposed to community or citizenship or even responsibility, and in general driven not by any optimistic political agenda but by darkness and light in equal measure.

>Is it possible that, in lieu of actual capital being earned by victimized groups, a substitute form of cultural capital—i.e., identity—is being offered? Competition, performance, and achievement—all neoliberal ideals whose final confirmation occurs in the marketplace—are measured against the ideals of identity politics, rather than any substantive knowledge content; one is, in essence, in competition with oneself, or rather one’s history as one’s physical embodiment in a specific time and place, the goal being to present oneself as solid and logistically viable.

>Is identity politics in schooling just another form of test preparation for the workplace, a standardization that cannot name itself? Has literature, in turn, succumbed to this ideology as writers continually assess themselves, hold themselves accountable, and fail themselves when they do not meet the standardized output of identity-politics norms? Has literature become a perpetual self-enforcement mechanism designed to root out unwanted (or inefficient) behaviors that may interfere with the ideal of self-sufficient communities beholden to separate cultures—all, however, pursuing the universal goal of capitalist improvement?

>We might view the entire politically correct movement on the left as a therapeutic regime. The kind of reeducation that I am talking about, manifesting in literary discourse, seeks to replace tragic moral choices (those found in classic literature) with a new psychological “normality” (a safe space of the mind, if you will, where nothing traumatic is ever triggered). Because literature is the arena for irresolvable moral dilemmas, creating doubt and anxiety, under the current regime it is literature that faces the greatest pressure to reform. When self-esteem replaces economic justice as a goal, some people will inevitably rebel against the imposition through overt expressions of violence and sadism, a phenomenon particularly noteworthy in the rise of Trump and the concomitant surge in white nationalism. One is either a victim or a victimizer; there is no third option. This is the idea that wants to take over literature.
subtropics.english.ufl.edu/index.php/2017/06/12/notes-ascendancy-identity-politics-literary-writing/

Ahistoric.

Levantines of the era weren't stormfag white supremacy aryan bullshit, but they weren't ethnic. Olive people a la contemporary Greeks, southern Italians, etc.

You know why user.

Pic related is why. Jews hate whites and are the central force behind our replacement in our countries and industries.

Ethnic chick here, what do I have to get in on this id pol trend?

Publish really obnoxious and gay poems on your tumblr. Make sure at least 70% of them are about being ethnic, being a woman, or some combination of those possibly along with any other marginalized identities you have.

Make sure you don't actually include any scathing political commentary, or really anything that could offend anyone who isn't a white, cishet, middle-class, young man.

>contemporary female authors publishing shit books in the name of fighting the stereotype that contemporary female authors are shit
rly makes you think

None of you understand minimalism. If someone were to tell you it was written by someone in ancient India or Japan you would probably go crazy over it. If you really think she is terrible at it why don't you write your own poems?

>We are all born beautiful.
>Lol but aborting that thing a few weeks before birth is 100% okay though. #HerBodyHerChoice

Of course, I cannot speak for everyone on Veeky Forums, but I would assume it is because "ethnic literature" constitutes a large portion of the books being promulgated by schools, literature reviews, and the "cultural elites" of today. I cannot provide a statistic verifying this observation (which you may want); however, even a cursory glance at the stuff being assigned most frequently in schools and being promoted by NYT and the like will bear this out. Naturally, this makes the trend very relevant to Veeky Forums, a board dedicated to the discussion of literature.

That sounds more like politics to me. Plus no one is discussing her work in a constructive manner.

She is being forced down everyones throughts by cultural marxists. March into any bookstore chain and you will find her books just by walking around.

>cultural Marxists

Jews, yeah. They don't care about white artistic endeavors and want to turn them into jokes by elevating talentless brown people.

read up on the frankfurt school. you can't ignore reality forever
zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-12/birth-cultural-marxism-how-frankfurt-school-changed-america

oh wow im #redpilled now thanks /pol/ for opening my eyes to the jew.

Glad to have you on board. Come visit if you have the time

Has nothing to do with pol, it's just reality and truth. You want to be a dumbass forever?

Will do. I just got on question first.

What did you read by the Frankfurt school that lead you to this conclusion?

this is the most simplistic self righteous bullshit ive ever seen. Do people fucking think this shit is deep?

But I just said I agree with you. The Jewish cultural Marxists are trying to destroy western civilization with Rupi Kaur poems.

Why would I be a dumbass for believing that?

I read through them. Look at modern universities and tell me you see nothing wrong

Sounded like you were being facetious. My apologies if you weren't.

Isn't it a bit fishy how someone like her is promoted so much? They bring her up everywhere, goodreads, bookstores, universities, CNN