MaleMonday is a meme that began with Ari @ Reading in Color
Do you identify that certain something in a story’s voice that makes it male or female? Can females really create a male voice? Should they? Why do you think they do?
a few writers who have written in the voice of YA males of color
Lyn Miller Lachmann Gringolandia
Janet Nichols Lynch Messed Up
Louanne Johnson Muchacho
Coe Booth Tyrell
Sharon Flake You Don’t Even Know Me
B.A. Binns Pull
Cotton Quilts Edi 
[…] This post was mentioned on Twitter by IBLN, edicampbell. edicampbell said: MaleMonday : http://wp.me/p13ec-GU […]
LikeLike
I think many females author’s write great male protagonist. I think Gringolandia , Tyrell and Pull are all great examples of that.
I didn’t like Messed Up. Though that was more of a race then a gender outsider prespective of the author that had me shaking my head no. Though in both cases I thought MC was one dimensional.
I loved Who Am I Without Him by Flake. Its second only to Money Hungry in my Flake top 5 but You Don’t Even Know Me, didn’t work for me. Though I think a lot of boys will be attracted to its cover.
LikeLike
My top fictional male voices include several by women. Larry’s Party by Carol Shields–I found the male protagonist’s narrative utterly convincing. I wonder, thought, if men did?
And Sue Townsend’s Adrian Mole. Pure genius.
LikeLike
Writing PULL in a male voice was not a task I entered into lightly. It took months of research and study and frankly being a voyeur in the lives of young males. I’m just happy that so far people who have read the book, including males of various ages, tell me that I got it right.
LikeLike
It must feel especially good to get validation from the young men who read Pull. To me, it is a good read and it seems authentic, but, I’m a girl!
Thanks for the insight into writing from a different perspective.
LikeLike