5/9/2023 0 Comments Theory by Dionne Brand![]() Through memory’s eye, this story observes these amorous relationships through a retroactive lens, scrutinizing the effects each lover had on the narrator and the writing process. Written in an elegant and intelligent prose, this story is thoughtful and beautiful. Theory follows an unnamed narrator through the process of writing a dissertation–a process that is regularly derailed and redirected through three poignant love affairs that shape the narrator’s life experiences. Each galvanizing love affair (representing, in turn, the heart, the head, and the spirit) upends and reorients the narrator’s life and, inevitably, requires an overhaul of the ever larger and more unwieldy dissertation, with results both humorous and poignant. While our narrator tries to complete this magnum opus, three lovers enter the story, one after the other, each transforming the endeavour. ![]() Theory begins as its narrator sets out, like many a graduate student, to write a wildly ambitious thesis on the past, present, and future of art, culture, race, gender, class, and politics–a revolutionary work that its author believes will synthesize and thereby transform the world. ![]() *I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* ![]()
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