Described as ‘a satirical literary thriller that’s enjoyable and uncomfortable in equal measure’ by The New York Times, Asian American author Rebecca F Kuang’s Yellowface has generated a fair amount of critical discussion around race, diversity and who gets to tell a story.
Instead of these discussions, the better questions to ask from Kuang’s perspective are “What is the text doing?”, “Why did the author choose to write about these people?” and then in the context of the literary economy, “Who’s getting paid to tell these stories?”.
