Can a White Woman Write Authentically About Camilla's Life?

Can a white woman write authentically about camilla's life? quami argues. The test is whether gale's original manuscript evocatively captured what it was like to be an acient american girl coming of age in the deep south, conjuring lindy so that readers can walk in her shoes. This is why we have novels in the first place. Think of books like madame bovery, written by a man, gustave flaubert or to kill a mocking bird,. A book with several characters of a different race and gender than the female author, harper lee. Don't we want writers to inhabit world views that are not their own?...