Cultural appropriation is ultimately about the cash

None of this would matter if authors had unlimited access to the grants that help keep them writing. But there is only so much to go around. When some win, others lose.

American author Annie Proulx, right, pictured with then-U.S. ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman in September 2016, wrote The Shipping News, a book set in Newfoundland.Photograph courtesy of the U.S. Embassy in Canada

Opinion

BY THOMAS WALKOM

May 17, 2017

TORONTO—The debate over cultural appropriation is complicated. At one level it is about the legitimacy of telling the stories of others. At base, it is about money. It became front-page news recently when the editor of a little-known literary magazine created a firestorm by daring to support the ...

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