Nhận biết (M1)

With her 2019 debut Saltmarsh, the novelist Wren Adakai proved herself one of the boldest fantasy writers around today. By placing a Diné hero at the story’s heart, as Adakai herself is Diné, the book also helped open a door for Indigenous people inside the fantasy genre. Yet she is far from the only Indigenous author now reshaping fantasy: Marcus Ihaka, of the Māori people of Aotearoa New Zealand, has taken up the form as well. His much-praised 2022 novel Tide-Singer is set within a Māori coastal town.

Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence?

• A.

  It forecasts that authors who are not Indigenous will write more Indigenous characters into their stories.

• B.

  It disputes the common belief that Wren Adakai drew Saltmarsh from events in her own life.

• C.

  It underscores just why the depiction of Indigenous people in the novel Saltmarsh matters so much.

• D.

  It questions why so many readers with no love of fantasy went out and bought Saltmarsh.