In a recent essay for/Harper’s/, Thomas Chatterton Williams, the now
somewhat notorious liberal writer and critic, responded to Viet Thanh
Nguyen’s call for a new and explicitly political writing. For Nguyen,
the Trump years were a boon for a certain type of writer who was able to
finally pull the scales from their eyes that had developed during the
“warmth” of the Obama years, and to finally, in these newly troubled
times, “awaken [writing] to politics.” Yet, for Nguyen, the problem is
just how marginal such politically-active writing is – it mainly being
written by those groups who are themselves the most marginalised, those
who bear the brunt of a system of unequal social power: the “writers of
color, queer and trans writers, feminist writers, anticolonial writers.”
What we need then, for Nguyen, is to generalise such writing, to make
the political aesthetic.
https://johnmerrick.substack.com/p/on-commitment
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