sábado, 16 de agosto de 2025

The Evolution of a Beloved Postcolonial Critic and Literary Giant


Plus, Daniela Catrileo's newly translated novel; the next generation of progressive pundits; RFK Jr.'s war on junk food; DHS's neo-Nazi memes; and more...
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Today: "The Evolution of a Beloved Postcolonial Critic and Literary Giant" Plus, Daniela Catrileo's newly translated novel; the next generation of progressive pundits; RFK Jr.'s war on junk food; DHS's neo-Nazi memes; and more...

 
 

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The Evolution of a Beloved Postcolonial Critic and Literary Giant

By Mychal Denzel Smith 

The late-career essay collection can serve multiple purposes, none of which are mutually exclusive: It is a point of introduction to a new readership, one that may know the writer's name but may be intimidated by their output, or simply want an easy place to start; it gives longtime readers a chance to encounter things they may have missed, little jewels for the completionists among us; and it may attempt to burnish the legacy of a writer in their twilight years who aims for one more chance at self-definition before their work is taken apart, posthumously, by literary wolves.

 

Not that Jamaica Kincaid's legacy needs much burnishing—the Antigua-born novelist and essayist's five-decade-long career is one that few writers would turn down. "In 1966, at the age of 17, with no money, no connections and no practical training, Elaine Potter Richardson left the West Indian island of Antigua, bound for New York and a job as an au pair," a New York Times profile on Kincaid from 1990 reads. "She did not return until she was 36. By then she was Jamaica Kincaid, a respected author of fiction and a staff writer for The New Yorker, whose prose is studied in universities and widely anthologized." In the 35 years since, her stature has only grown...

 

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