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Our sheltered lives have made us overly fearful: Aminatta Forna’s Happiness reviewed

21 April 2018

9:00 AM

21 April 2018

9:00 AM

In her keynote lecture for a conference on ‘The Muse and the Market’ in 2015 Aminatta Forna mounted a powerful advocacy for the political novel, challenging the assumption that politics or ‘subject’ undermines literary aesthetic. ‘A political novel can fail as a work of art as much as any other novel,’ she argued, ‘but the fact that it is political does not sentence it to failure.

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