![]() ![]() As Brand writes, "I knew, and they knew, that academia was a place for perpetuating class and class privilege." The text reveals the history of the academy, and the campus novel, as capitalist and colonial, and populated accordingly and it highlights reader complicity in the elision of all but white characters, and the naturalizing of capitalist values in previous fictions. What is the effect of departing from the naturalized straight white male anti-hero narrators written by Philip Roth or Kingsley Amis, and asking the reader instead to occupy the interior life of a person over several relationships which affect the narrator's perspective on the self at work? The effect is twofold. ![]() This "I," through which the reader views the novel, resists characterization by being both unnamed and ungendered, which also prevents the reader from confidently asserting the sexuality of the speaker. Penguin Random House Canada $27.95ĭoes she see me there, dressed in paper, dressed in the cuts on my fingers from turning pages?ĭionne Brand's engrossing new novel, Theory, experiments with the genre of the campus novel, employing the restricted perspective of a first-person narrator to recount a tale of love affairs and work. Love under Capitalism Dionne Brand Theory. ![]()
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