Interview with Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl on literature and identity politics
Novels and poems can teach us something important about identity politics
POV International features an interview with Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl on her new book, Real Recognition. Marie-Elisabeth says that though political debates often treat identity as something fixed and solid, literature shows us that identity can actually be fluid, mutable, and flexible - an insight with significant consequences for vexed contemporary discussions of race and gender.
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