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“An imperial literature prefers the realism of showing the imperfect domesticity within an American empire…promoted by…Obama in his annual list of recommended books, which…provides a literary sheen that obscures Obama’s …drone assassinations and deportation of… migrants.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire
One way to understand the dilemma of contemporary American literature in the age of Donald Trump is to see it as an imperial literature. The United States is a different kind of empire, exerting gl…
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April 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“An imperial literature prefers the realism of showing the imperfect domesticity within an American empire…promoted by…Obama in his annual list of recommended books, which…provides a literary sheen that obscures Obama’s …drone assassinations and deportation of… migrants.
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The professor writing this is a China specialist that’s been writing about censorship for decades lmao
I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...
April 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The professor writing this is a China specialist that’s been writing about censorship for decades lmao
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I’m not sure how demoralizing it is that in addition to the refusal to stick up for academic freedom that our scholars when elevated to leadership will actively go to bat for censorship. If you’re an Asia studies academic you should be talking about this now tbh
The professor writing this is a China specialist that’s been writing about censorship for decades lmao
I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...
April 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I’m not sure how demoralizing it is that in addition to the refusal to stick up for academic freedom that our scholars when elevated to leadership will actively go to bat for censorship. If you’re an Asia studies academic you should be talking about this now tbh