ABSTRACT
Cultural pluralism has been celebrated under the slogan of U.S. multiculturalism and its promotion of diversity. However, unequal power relations between majority whites and racial minorities have been ongoing, and in the case of minority writers entering the mainstream literary market has not been easy. These writers have had to negotiate with or serve the mainstream publishers’ demands, or skillfully filter literary and political censorship through artistic devices. Graham Huggan discusses the dilemma that racial/cultural minority writers are experiencing. He explains that minority writers
Publishers or market-oriented culture industries have already shown a tendency to exploit cultural differences by attaching a tag, “the exotic.”2
