Interesting. That's a perceptive comment about the post-modern-imitation issue.

At times, "Yellowface" reads like auto-fiction, which it isn't supposed to be. That, in my view, helps to explain why it doesn't work as satire. It sticks too closely to real life and lacks the degree of comic exaggeration needed for satire.

Thanks so much for giving me an opening to say that. I love writing about litcrit issues like why satire or postmodernism does or doesn't work, but this piece was 7 minutes long already, so I held off.