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The RIGHT To Tell: Authorship may be sacred, yet critics must push
for a popular dialogue upon authenticity.

"Don't tell" said my parents, although we couldn't tell if we wanted
to because we didn't know"

-- Maxine Hong Kingston, Woman Warrior, 1975

Times have certainly changed since the classical exoticism of Diary
of a Geisha Girl, the 1959 first-person account ("as told to" author
William Vaneer) of a Japanese geisha who follows to America and pursues
her life calling as a prostitute. The diversity of today's readers
and critics

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