“Desai’s postcolonial novel does not apologize for deploying this old colonial trope: indeed, abandoning the self-consciousness it brings to so much else, it traffics in the belief that there is a basic, implacable, civilizational difference between East & West.” www.publicbooks.org/the-allure-o...
The Allure of Postcolonial Pathos - Public Books
"To what extent might the Booker—and venues like it in Europe and the US—be drawn for self-serving reasons to fiction like Kiran Desai’s?"
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