How not to answer interview questions
From a New Left Project interview with Hamid Dabashi, author of Brown Skin, White Masks:
Can you give us a brief synopsis of your main argument?
I think it should be left to my readers to find out for themselves what this book is about. Any act of writing is an act of successive and open-ended discovery, predicated on the initial impetus that places a person in front of a laptop.
Is he trying to get into Pseuds Corner?
He continues:
In short, I have sought to think through the racialized manufacturing of hegemony in the making of an empire, or engineering consent to it, while critically reconsidering the whole function of expatriate intellectuals in that process.
“In short”, indeed.
The book got a bad review in the Morning Star and this just gives me another reason not to read it.
