Carolina QuotesI think the genre decides for me—which sounds like a way of avoiding the question unless I explain first that this chameleon-like border crossing, this shifting of genre identities is, I realize, parallel to, or anticipates, or recollects my own life. I’m probably fluctuating across genres perhaps because my identity itself is always in flux…
Ariel Dorfman Connected to the Carolinas
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On his decision of what genre to write in in “Interview with Ariel Dorfman” (Dalkey Archive Press)
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