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“A record in bad taste.” This is how Sydsvenskan’s influential critic Margaux Dietz described the new children’s book. Now check the poodle publishers who have published the book. “We have not been successful,” writes editorial director Claes Ericson in an email to Göteborgs-Posten.
Margaux Dietz’s new children’s book takes place in South Africa, but not a single black person appears.
Margaux Dietz’s children’s book “Arnold Travels to South Africa” received scathing reviews when it was reviewed in Sydsvenskan by Shora Esmailian.
Although the plot of the book takes place in South Africa, not a single black person appears. The characters the reader meets are only the Dietz family and the various exotic animals that appear on the safari.
“Dietz must have broken some kind of record for tastelessness and shameless colonial blindness in contemporary Swedish children’s literature,” writes Shora Esmailian and hopes the author sticks with Instagram in the future.
The children’s book has also been called deafness on social media and now the publisher is responding to criticism. In an email to Göteborgs-Posten, publisher Claes Ericson writes: “We take full responsibility for our publication and understand in hindsight that the publishing process of this book should have been done with greater care on important issues such as representation and standards. of whiteness “.
He continues:
We realize that although our intent with this book was never intended to hurt, we have a passivity during publication and an inability to see beyond our own perspective, and therefore we have failed to create a book that could include otherwise ”.
Sydsvenskan has looked up Claes Ericson at Bookmark publishers and Margaux Dietz.
Also read Margaux Dietz should stick to Instagram
