I’ve long held that great literature impacts history harder than lesser literature. I trace the evolution of my ideas in today’s post.
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Lit and Life: My Intellectual Trajectory
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Lit Can Both Enslave and Liberate
In his 1961 revolutionary classic, Frantz Fanon saw literature as a powerful force with the potential to both enslave and liberate. Emerging nationalist movements needed literary expression to frame a sense of what was possible.
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