You have just summarised my deep dissatisfaction with the creative writing MA which extols these…

I mean this entirely in the spirit of praise. The novel’s earnestness and didacticism are out of sync with much mainstream contemporary Anglophone fiction, in which the hero’s quest for self-realization transpires in an inward-facing world that takes scant account of global injustices.
Palestinian Prison Literature and the Struggle for Freedom
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Aza Y. Alam
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Apr 26, 2024
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You have just summarised my deep dissatisfaction with the creative writing MA which extols these kinds of books - often a mixture of narcissistic elf -promotion mixed with a total disregard for the lived realities of the majority of the world.
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Exploring the entanglements of gender, race and class during this era of the Eurokleptocene. Let’s do better, one story, one learning, one comment at a time.
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