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Winnie Dunn’s debut novel Dirt Poor Islanders is an impassioned response to detrimental stereotypes

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par Jessica Gildersleeve, Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland

Winnie Dunn’s first novel, Dirt Poor Islanders, takes as its epigraph a line from Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians (2013): “Remember, every treasure comes with a price.”

Like Kwan, Dunn has made it her project to bring a more sensitive intercultural understanding to an unfamiliar readership. The title of her novel is a direct echo of Kwan’s. But where Crazy Rich Asians reworks familiar Western views…

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