Novels and Political Consciousness (with Elif Batuman & Merve Emre)

Episode 2 March 14, 2021 01:00:00
Novels and Political Consciousness (with Elif Batuman & Merve Emre)
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Novels and Political Consciousness (with Elif Batuman & Merve Emre)

Mar 14 2021 | 01:00:00

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Show Notes

Novelist Elif Batuman and scholar Merve Emre join our host, Nicholas Dames, to consider how novels help us develop an awareness of capitalism, power, and the world we live in. In making pain beautiful, do novels depoliticize us? Or can a novel like Sakaya Murata's Convenience Store Woman help us figure out what freedom looks like? 

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