Alexandra Dane, "White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
New Books in Literary Studies
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Introduction
Alex Dane is a lecturer in media and communications at the University of Melbourne. He argues that contemporary book culture is structured by practice that operates according to a white taste logic. The author says he was fascinated with Jonathan Franzen after an Oprah Winfrey incident, which led him to look at how power circulates in book publishing.
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