Whats with the sudden influx of asian female authors getting the spotlight out of nowhere in the past few years?Are they industry plants? And for what?
>>25242659Asian females check the gender box and technically the minority box, but being Asian they are a high IQ minority as opposed to the low IQ minorities, so they can be pushed as diverse without also being mouth-breathing retards.
>>25242659They’re a privileged minority.Publishing houses fear publishing books from other minorities because they would be politically incorrect and upsetting to the status quo.
>>25242659disgusting bags under her eyes
>>25242659yeah they get special treatment by publishers, a lot of rich asian women are in the industry now and funding this stuff as vanity projectshopefully some of them produce actual art instead of generic "i got mildly teased for my race as a widdle kid", "my parents were immigrants" and "I want a white husband" garbage
>>25242659Read actual asians, not yellow yanks.
>>25242659Do you recall about 5 years back when Asians tried to piggyback off the BLM movement and tried to say that violence and discrimination happened against them too? They had their own hashtags and even their own little holiday for at least a couple years.It wasn't very successful but it did muddy the waters and nobody really knows how to treat them from a marketing standpoint. We're still dealing with the ramifications of that.My wife does Goodreads challenges and I often join her because it can be fun, but if you ever do that you'll notice immediately how 90% of the books on a challenge list are by black or asian women. They're all very bad and few real people actually read them, but that's where we're at right now.The asian problem is a tricky one. Objectively speaking they are substantially more privileged than even white people. All their stereotypes are positive (except for that one small exception), they're generally smarter and richer, and they can get away with very racist behavior because they're a minority. Giving them even more special advantages feels very wrong, but to admit that puts the entire mechanism of minority assistance into question, so we're not allowed to say it.
they want an asian american who could write the next great american novel, but the reality is asian americans are model minorities with very little to struggle with, they end up writing boring books about resenting white people or hating their parentsyeah, there isnt going to be an asian american jack Kerouac or DFW or something
>>25242780It's also revealed how few publishers and agents actually read books.You could build a good sized castle out of the books that can described as an asian woman's fictionalized memoir of dating a white boy, feuding with her parents, but ultimately discovering what it really means to be asian.yet apparently all an azn qt has to do is walk into an agent's office with such a manuscript and they get an immediate greenlight as if THIS will be the one that'll sell more than romantusy smut
>>25242659They're in vogue with academia and wokeness so they get DEI'd.
>>25242678>other minorities because they would be politically incorrect and upsetting to the status quo.I dunno about that. There was that black chick that won the nebula or hugo award three years in a row and the book were about racism and racemixing.I think the thing here is frequency. Latinxs and blacks are more likely to aim for the music or other media industries than the book industry, while asians will prefer the latter. So, for every book about a latinx narrating how he grew up eating tacos while being chased by ICE or about a muslim trans black woman suffering the microaggressions of white people who want to touch her hair a publishing company will have ten books about generational trauma by asian.s>>25242773I remember when #StopAsianHate was cancelled because people asked who was attacking asians, lol.
maybe asians need to write about what it means to be american, not asian, therefore creating something that is unique and appeals universally to all Americansmost asian writers are coming from east asians who have had an easy life need like a lowerclass asian, like a hmong from california or somethingyou never seen a homeless asian personor an asian needs to throw away everything and become a drug addict or skip university to travel across america like that guy from into the wildotherwise its just going to be boring stories of resentment, hate, and romance with white people
>>25242659>Whats with the sudden influx of asian female authors getting the spotlight out of nowhere in the past few years?asians immigrate to the united states in the mid/late 20th c > achieve financial stability > emphasize academic achievement > send their kids to college at higher rates > some of those kids discover literature. they're the first minority to achieve broad familial financial stability basically which means they have enough time/resources to write. couple this with liberal guilt in the publishing industry and you have the answer>are they industry plantsno, but saying "no" might make several people in this thread very, very upset, so pretend I didn't say "no" and said "yes" instead so we don't have to deal with their seethe-spittle
>>25242659It’s 100% planted but also there’s demand for it. A large portion of my gf’s reading list is asian lit. Granted, it seems to be the least cringey of the booktok side of things as I sometimes read excerpts and see it at least has some interesting mythological and eastern ideas (obviously not intentional as women, even asian, are dumb) but it is still slop. Women seem to like the aesthetic of asian centric stories and so publishing houses just churn it out
>>25243051Most of these nu-asians are actually sent from china and Korea to live/study in the states though. notable examples are R. F. Kuang and Celine Song. Same goes for a lot of classical musicians. I think the actual 3rd gen Asian Americans are mostly too corrupted up by American culture.
>>25242659>sudden influxyou sweet summer childAsian lady exploring inter-generational trauma is the bread and butter of literary fiction
>>25242773>but to admit that puts the entire mechanism of minority assistance into question, so we're not allowed to say it.There’s a billion of them. I think a bit of bug spray would be fine.
>>25242659why not male asian authors?
>>25243683American culture neuters Asian men, None of them get the drive to really write books and be creative as a profession. Asian women don’t care about their men for some reason and never use literature to point this out with empathy. They just don’t care about their brothers they see this happen with
>>25242680>her knees are too sharp
>>25243683I'm not sure I can think of a single male Asian artist of any medium. The closest you get are actors.
can't imagine ive ever read a female asian author, not an alley id like to find myself in
>>25242773>My wife does Goodreads challenges and I often join her because it can be funCucked wife guy
>>25242659I would say they're probably spies
>>25243732https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_manga_artists
>>25244055>cartoons>comicsGrim
>>25242664>>25242695This.In modern publishing hell, this is sort of how it works:>Be selling a fantasy storyIs it romantasy done by an utterly mediocre white woman? We love those!>NoAh, shame. Can we shoehorn it somewhat into romantasy?>I mean, I guessOk great! What race are you? The good kind or the bad kind?>AsianNot a man, right? If you're a guy this book will definitely have to be centered on a gay romance.>No, I'm a womanOk great! Still should probably put a gay romance in just in case>Okay...Cool! So you're a boss bitch with an anticolonialist fantasy world centered on queerness. Perfect! We'll take a 5-book series to go next to our books by Middle Eastern and Indian women that are exactly the same but with different superficial worldbuilding!They basically thread the gatekeeping needles and can both appeal to the publishing gargoyles and avoid being quite as faggy and derivative as the rest of their little chicklit 'genre'. By contrast if you're a brown / asian dude you 100% are boxed into making your story either flaming gay or aggressively champagne communist. Asian women have enough nepotism in their corner to sail between Syclla and Charybdis too, as anon mentioned.
>>25244055h-heh, of course, how silly of me
>>25242659More women read books than menMore Asians read books than whites and blacksWhites are also open (or even partial) to reading books by Asians Simple economics
>>25242659asians are the dominant ethnicity. women read more than men. simple mathematics. also see >>25245085
The Poet Empress is a genuine masterpiece
>>25242659People started to call out the “black female author” industry trend, so they had to shift gears while still looking diverse. Not that these Asian writers are any better. They’re still primarily writing about race above all else. It’s why that novel that begins with “My white boyfriend” got memed on so hard.
>>25243782celibate virgin guy>>25244367>Cool! So you're a boss bitch with an anticolonialist fantasy world centered on queerness. Perfect! We'll take a 5-book series to go next to our books by Middle Eastern and Indian women that are exactly the same but with different superficial worldbuilding!This is what liberals mean by wanting 'diversity' btw. A bunch of superficial differences over people who are otherwise the exact same.
>>25245085>More Asians read books than whites and blacksThis is not trueYour worldview is pretty shit btw. None of this is market driven. It's ideological.
>>25243683Because they're men. Eugch. We need to kick em while they're down.
>>25243734I've dated Asian girls. They're great girlfriends but they have nothing interesting to say. Even the smart ones.
>>25243683Asian men are 2nd in the privilege ladder after White menthey don't get the benefits of being non-white
>>25246563>liberal 'diversity'Precisely. Their favorite shit is just a wealthy white liberal woman's experience of Los Angeles / Toronto but with slightly different coats of paint. Sometimes that paint is young adult dystopia, sometimes sloppy generic asian fantasy, sometimes medieval europe, but it almost never actually tries to delve into how people in these imagined societies are DIFFERENT than a contemporary college educated yuppie.Those exceptions which are genuinely diverse and feature characters and worlds that are genuinely diverse - think Stone Dance of the Chameleon or A Spear Cuts Through Water - were clearly only tolerated because they had Ethnic Men Who Are Gay For Each Other. That makes the icky weirdness of a problematic world palatable for these rubes in modern publishing.Lacking gays, it should compensate by being about one of the modern pet themes. Anticolonialism, anti-racism, girl power, anticapitalism, etc. That is also a way to keep publishers from deciding that the material gives them the ick.Spear Cuts Through Water still managed to be fun, which I applaud. It was genuinely refreshingly different than most of the shit that gets put to press in fantasy these days.
>>25246916I like when there is an accurate depiction of a different culture, and they call it 'racist.'They're basically admitting they think the other culture is shit.As you said, they imagine other cultures are all diverse progressive utopias dressed in different outfits.
