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From WSJbooks: Dramatist and novelist Ayad Akhtar traces his ideological transformation from naive adherent of the American Dream to critic of American hegemony

When he was a college student in the 1990s, Ayad Akhtar writes in “Homeland Elegies” , a beloved professor startled him with her belief that “America had begun as a colony and . . .

a colony it remained, that is, a place still defined by its plunder, where enrichment was paramount and civil order always an afterthought.” Today this view would constitute standard-issue academic and op-ed boilerplate, but to the young author it was a jarring “corrective to a tradition of endless American self-congratulation.” The placement of the conversion story at the very start of the book sets up Mr. Akhtar’s...

 

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