America Lacks Multicultural Literature

*There are wonderful, brilliant Latino writers in the U.S. But editors, publishers, press decision makers, not so much – at least not in the big-box bookselling universe. All the more reason to buy from the independent Latino press. VL

By Tejas Desai, Huntington Post Books

The absurdly low percentage of multicultural literature published by the major publishing industry is a topic which has been addressed before, and more recently inan Op-Ed in the New York Times by Christopher Myers. But given the current state of the American literary landscape, let us look more deeply into the state of multicultural literature itself.

The definitions of multicultural literature are fairly fluid and often contradictory. They tend to differ from agent to publisher, librarian to professor. Some consider Asian-American and Latino-American literature to be multicultural, while others do not. Very few professionals I have known consider African-American literature to be multicultural, although it arguably is.

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