Reviews tagging 'Cultural appropriation'

Scattered All Over the Earth by Yōko Tawada

1 review

reads2cope's review against another edition

2.75

An interesting concept, but the execution fell flat for me. I didn’t like the humor, and there were too many plot holes to really connect with the setting. The ending was abrupt. By the last page, I felt like I needed an explanation about how the obsession with sex connected to the other themes. The treatment of Akash was also confusing - the other characters were so language-obsessed, was their refusal to see her as a woman an example of their prejudice? Or is the author just transphobic? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Cultural appropriation, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death of parent, Abandonment, Xenophobia, Racism, and Sexual content