Can First World Literature Teach us Anything?
Can bourgeois, monolingual authors provide insight into the experience of marginalized others?
Read more "Can First World Literature Teach us Anything?"Can bourgeois, monolingual authors provide insight into the experience of marginalized others?
Read more "Can First World Literature Teach us Anything?"By Mark McConaghy In part one of this series, I asked the question: why read literature in this day and age? What can literature actually do to better humanity? While intellectuals, professors, and graduate students may feel that an answer to such a question is readily apparent- literature Enlightens! Enthralls! Nurtures our Soul!- I have […]
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