Review of "Feel Free by Zadie Smith"
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‘When I was younger even the appearance of “I” on the page made me feel a bit ill,’ Zadie Smith confesses in her new book of essays, Feel Free. Shades of this chariness about the personal pronoun still persist in her non-fiction today, which is markedly self-effacing. From the outset, Smith repeatedly attempts to ditch the mantle of authority: ‘I have no real qualifications to write as I do. Not a philosopher or sociologist, not a real professor of literature or film,’ she says in her foreword. Later, she demurs, ‘I am a laywoman … a dilettante novelist, a non-expert.’ You could be forgiven for writing off such claims as disingenuous, coming from a boldface name who writes for The New Yorker and Harper’s – hardly the bush league.
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| ID Code: | 117202 | ||
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| Item Type: | Contribution to Journal (Book/Film/Article review article) | ||
| Refereed: | No | ||
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| Keywords: | Essays, Identity, Personal Essays, Zadie Smith | ||
| ISSN: | 0155-2864 | ||
| Pure ID: | 60211517 | ||
| Divisions: | Past > QUT Faculties & Divisions > Creative Industries Faculty Current > Schools > School of Creative Practice Current > Research Centres > Creative Lab Current > Research Centres > Law and Justice Research Centre |
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| Copyright Owner: | 2018 Australian Book Review Inc. | ||
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| Deposited On: | 11 Apr 2018 01:44 | ||
| Last Modified: | 03 Mar 2024 11:32 |
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