{"id":5865,"date":"2018-02-01T12:40:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T17:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=5865"},"modified":"2018-02-01T12:44:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T17:44:01","slug":"zadie-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2018\/02\/01\/zadie-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Zadie Smith and the value of the humanities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aaihs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Zadie-Smith-1.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"\" class=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Zadie Smith is a writer and essayist who brings with her an modern, multicultural outlook on art and expression. As Dwight Gardner writes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/29\/books\/review-zadie-smith-feel-free-martin-amis-rub-of-time.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;<span>Smith, who is English-Jamaican, has prized open in her fiction a modern, multicultural, post-post-colonial England. In addition to being devastatingly good, her novels describe the ways society has changed in advance of phenomena like to give just one example the arrival of a figure like Meghan Markle as the Duchess of Sussex&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>She also supplies newemphasis on the humanities and their importance today. Consider how she uses Milton to describe Jay-Z: &#8220;Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Smith is a <em>fascinating<\/em> writer and we are excited to hear more from her later this semester when she visits the Tsai Performance Center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/135532087146222\/\" target=\"_blank\">for a talk on writing<\/a> with Christopher Lydon. (Core is a co-sponsor!) This is is first in a lecture series proposed as an annual event highlighting the importance of the humanities at the heart of the arts and sciences. Below are the details and Facebook event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zadie Smith is a writer and essayist who brings with her an modern, multicultural outlook on art and expression. As Dwight Gardner writes in The New York Times: &#8220;Smith, who is English-Jamaican, has prized open in her fiction a modern, multicultural, post-post-colonial England. In addition to being devastatingly good, her novels describe the ways society [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5865"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5869,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions\/5869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}