/lit/ - Literature

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>[Infinite Jest] is the white male's capacity for speaking over minorities and women encapsulated in one droning, yawning work the serves to function as a sort of mansplain of the human condition. Though in one section, Wallace attempts to filter masculine emotion (or lack there of) through the mask of a "feminine entity" (Kate Gompert) at a desperate, grabbing, clawing and gnashing attempt at inclusion.
Do you agree?

"When we talk about American black contribution to literature we're not talking about literal texts but rather the formation of language itself. Whites wrote the words, but blacks created the language and more critically the basic facets of American expression. Thus all experiences become inherently black experiences. The formation of the majority of American text is shaped through black dialects and is in essence a form of blackface - pure black expression and experiences filtered through white voices and white lenses into a diluted context." - John Green (in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=GQdMgtncpoE))

Is he essentially correct? Is there really such an unconscious affect on our writing or no?