{"id":54462,"date":"2017-07-11T01:36:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T01:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54462"},"modified":"2017-07-11T01:36:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T01:36:36","slug":"mixed-race-authors-write-fantasies-with-asian-and-middle-eastern-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54462","title":{"rendered":"Mixed-race authors write fantasies with Asian and Middle Eastern heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mixed-race authors write fantasies with Asian and Middle Eastern heroes<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Straits Times<\/a>
\nSingapore
\n2017-07-10<\/p>\n

Olivia Ho<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nRoshani Chokshi<\/a> was shortlisted in February for a Nebula award for The Star-Touched Queen<\/em><\/a> (2016), which is steeped in Hindu mythology and folklore. PHOTO: AMAN SHARMA<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Authors Roshani Chokshi and Renee Ahdieh struggled to identify with the white protagonists of books they read growing up and have written stories that draw on their heritage<\/em><\/p>\n

Young adult authors from mixed- race backgrounds are making their mark with fantasy worlds that draw not on European fairy tales or Greek myth<\/a>, but on Sanskrit<\/a> epic or samurai lore, and where the heroines are not blonde or blue-eyed but Asian or Middle Eastern.<\/p>\n

Among these is best-selling Scottish-Korean-American author Renee Ahdieh<\/a>, who drew on the Arabian Nights<\/em><\/a> and her husband’s Persian roots for the Scheherazade<\/a>-inspired novel The Wrath And The Dawn<\/em><\/a> (2015) and its sequel The Rose And The Dagger<\/em><\/a> (2016). She is exploring feudal Japan in her new novel Flame In The Mist<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Writer Roshani Chokshi<\/a>, an American of Indian-Filipino descent, was shortlisted in February for a Nebula award for The Star-Touched Queen<\/a> (2016), which is steeped in Hindu mythology<\/a> and folklore…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Authors Roshani Chokshi and Renee Ahdieh struggled to identify with the white protagonists of books they read growing up and have written stories that draw on their heritage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8],"tags":[27259,27258,27257,14213,3518],"class_list":["post-54462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-media-archive","tag-olivia-ho","tag-renee-ahdieh","tag-roshani-chokshi","tag-straits-times","tag-the-straits-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54463,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54462\/revisions\/54463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}