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September 17, 2021
Thanks to Rebecca L. Thacker, a 2021 HMU Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post.
Although I won’t deny the pleasures of “art for art’s sake” (I’m no stranger to a lazy day curled up with a plot driven page-turner), as a feminist cultural studies scholar, I’m interested in the role literature can play as a cultural change agent. Whether intentional or not, all literature is political.
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