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#really emphasizes that percy's working with a DEMON
natp20 · 2 years
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someone deserves a raise for this
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thalsianiii · 5 years
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Time to self brag: pulitzer: tell about/link a piece where you fielt your writing was the best. And I'll tell you that some of my favorite pieces are where you write about Percy acquiring his demons.
Well first off, I’m pleased to hear you enjoy the stories! Demons are people too and deserve just as much thought as our mortal OC’s!As for my personal favourites, I still think the old scientific papers I did on various demons were some good highlights. I know I’ve since walked away from the scientific community both IC and OOC, but I really enjoyed how I merged a very methodical and factual procedure into a fantasy setting. It’s something I’ve never seen done before and I felt like something of a pioneer in doing so.”For my new age stuff, I really like my recent trilogy. Even if it was a little heavy on the salt I definitely think it was some inspired work that really emphasized the villain I’m trying to be. Before then it’s been said and known, but never really seen. So I hope it turns into something of a turning point for the future. Maybe it’ll even make it into the paper ;)
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Author Highlight #5: Roshani Chokshi
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Roshani Chokshi (Rosh-Knee Chalk-She) is the New York Times bestselling author of Aru Shah and the End of Time, The Star-Touched Queen, A Crown of Wishes, and The Gilded Wolves, among other works. Her work has been nominated for the Locus and Nebula awards, and her books have appeared on Barnes and Nobles Best New Books of the Year and Buzzfeed Best Books of the Year lists. Chokshi lives in Georgia with her husband.
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Many of Chokshi’s literary works are inspired by her background as a mixed-raced Filipino and Indian American woman who grew up reading abridged, translated fairytales and books on Filipino and Indian mythology. For instance, her series with big-time bestselling author of the Percy Jackson series, Rick Riordan, and his imprint for diverse own-voices authors writing mythology for young readers called ‘Rick Riordan Presents’, Aru Shah and the End of Time, is about a young Indian-American girl named Aru Shah who accidentally unleashes the gods, goddesses, and demons of Hindu Mythology into the real world. 
Chokshi, stating in a LA Times interview: 
"My parents did an incredible job of inspiring me and my siblings to be voracious readers from the start...I think a large part of that is because we didn't learn our parents' native languages growing up. We only spoke English at home and so the way that we connected to parts of our heritage was oftentimes just through fairy tales and world mythology books. You couldn't really understand your own background without that."
Despite growing up with these stories as part of her heritage, Chokshi has had to do research for all of them. She says:
“I did inhale this mythology growing up, but India is such a vast country that there are so many different versions of the same tale.”
Across numerous interviews, Chokshi reiterates how she brings her personal background to these tales without changing them in a way that does not fit. Besides adding a glossary in her books to help her readers sort out the many different mythological figures, she also includes an explanation that emphasizes that her story is not intended to be a comprehensive guide to the mythology in question. She acknowledges that some people, particularly of those within the Indian and Filipino community, will and have reached out to her to claim that she has gotten something wrong. She says: 
“But we should take out the word 'wrong' because when it comes to mythology, especially in Hinduism, our mythology is a living thing. It's so closely tied to our religious identity. To call something wrong is to cancel out someone else's truth."
What Chokshi talks about here regarding a person’s truth is interesting. When it comes to Asian American literature, there should not be limits as to what is included within its binds. The fact that the Asian American community can sometimes police its own members and what kind of stories they are allowed to pull from (despite being inspired by these stories as a child of immigrant and diaspora parents, which I believe gives them the right to write about) is harmful and needs to stop. By policing what kind of content other Asians are allowed to produce and what kind of stories we are allowed to tell, we inevitably use the oppressor’s tools to oppress our own people. This relates to the issues in constituting Asian-American Feminisms and how...
“Any attempt to fix definitions of...Asian-ness, more broadly, through objective racial, national, or ethnic criteria, and to impose it as a category of state regulation must be resisted because to go down that road is to go the way of endless arguments over authority, authenticity, and voice, and ultimately reproduces race consciousness and racism” - (Lee 29) 
Lastly, I feel compelled to include this quote from Chokshi about the importance of representation, from Book Voyagers Blog:
“So many of the stories I loved shared characteristics that I wanted to write something that would be familiar to fairytale fans and also new because the story drew on different cultural traditions. I also felt an obligation to write this for my younger self. Growing up as a fantasy reader, I never saw people like me represented in those stories. I wanted to change that. There were times when I felt discouraged from writing The Star-Touched Queen. I felt like no one would even want to read this because it was too unfamiliar or they just had no interest. But so far I've been proven wrong in the best way possible.”
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Barnes and Noble link to buy Chokshi’s books; available where all books are sold.
Sources: 
Lee, Jo-Anne, et al. “Issues in Constituting Asian-Canadian Feminisms.” Asian Women, Women's Press - Canadian Scholar's Press, 2006, pp. 21–45.
“How Roshani Chokshi Came to Write a New Series for Rick Riordan.” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2018, www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-fob-roshani-chokshi-20180411-story.html.
“THE STAR-TOUCHED QUEEN: Interview with Roshani Chokshi.” The Book Voyagers, thebookvoyagers.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-star-touched-queen-interview-with.html.
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