Critics who are too quick to cry ‘cultural appropriation’ are curtailing artistic freedom, argues Andrew Doyle.
The acclaimed children’s author Anthony Horowitz has been cautioned against including black characters in his novels. In an interview with the Mail on Sunday, Horowitz claimed that the advice came from an editor who was concerned that it might be ‘inappropriate for white writers to try to create black characters’, and that to do so was ‘by its very nature, artificial and possibly patronising’... Keep reading on Spiked
The acclaimed children’s author Anthony Horowitz has been cautioned against including black characters in his novels. In an interview with the Mail on Sunday, Horowitz claimed that the advice came from an editor who was concerned that it might be ‘inappropriate for white writers to try to create black characters’, and that to do so was ‘by its very nature, artificial and possibly patronising’... Keep reading on Spiked