In | Appropriate is a collection of interviews with Canadian authors, exploring how they work through questions of difference, identity, and appropriation in their writing.

Edited by Kim Davids Mandar, and introduced by Daniel Heath Justice, the collection features interviews with Ian Williams, Ayelet Tsabari, Sanchari Sur, Eden Robinson, Jael Richardson, Waubgeshig Rice, Amanda Leduc, Chelene Knight, Mahak Jain, Wayne Grady, Alicia Elliott, Farzana Doctor, Michael Crummey, Arif Anwar, and Angie Abdou.
The interviews address questions of appropriation that go beyond race and culture, extending also to gender, sexuality, ability, age, and other categories of difference. They ask how writers work to represent an increasingly diverse and complex culture in ways that avoid falling into appropriation.

Kim David's Mandar holds degrees in applied linguistics and music therapy. She is now a full-time MSc student at the University of Guelph, writing a thesis on the role of theatre in building intercultural sensitivity. Her Certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph is a capstone course away from completion.
Kim co-hosts Bookish Radio at CFRU 93.3 FM in Guelph, with Anna
Bowen, Tamara Jong and Dan Evans. She has self-published There is Beauty Here
Because You are Here, a children’s story about global migration illustrated by
Alura Sutherland. Her writing has been published in Sustenance, ed. Rachel Rose (Anvil press, 2017), Rhapsody (Vocamus Press, 2018), and Prairie Fire literary magazine (2018).

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