People love to pigeon-hole. You have a similar thing with authors who have multicultural backgrounds who must get really peed off when they try to move away from White Teeth and have people still try to analyse everything they do from the perspective of them being "the voice of the non-white".
Or Sylvia Plath - can't get away from being "the one who gassed herself in the oven because her husband was a git" so everything she wrote is read entirely from that angle.
There was an interview I read with an author once where she was protesting that people think she's chicklit because of the way she's marketed. She's subjected to lurid cover art with a shoe or a shopping bag on it. And she says she's not chicklit at all. I can't actually remember what her name was...
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Date: 2010-01-07 04:09 pm (UTC)Or Sylvia Plath - can't get away from being "the one who gassed herself in the oven because her husband was a git" so everything she wrote is read entirely from that angle.
There was an interview I read with an author once where she was protesting that people think she's chicklit because of the way she's marketed. She's subjected to lurid cover art with a shoe or a shopping bag on it. And she says she's not chicklit at all. I can't actually remember what her name was...