How to read now : essays /
Elaine Castillo.
- London : Atlantic Books, 2022.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-340).
Author's note, or a Virgo clarifies things -- How to read now -- Reading teaches us empathy, and other fictions -- Honor the treaty -- The limits of white fantasy -- Main character syndrome -- "Reality is all we have to love" -- Autobiography in Asian film, or what we talk about when we talk about representation -- The children of Polyphemus.
"An exploration and manifesto investigating the power of reading--and our potential to become radically better readers in the world"--
9781838954956
Reading. Literature and society. Literature and race. Imperialism in literature. Books and reading--Sociological aspects.