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Critical Literary Consumption

An American Education Through Illness and Nourishment (with Dure Aziz Amna)

09 Dec 2022

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Dure Aziz Amna talks about writing her debut novel, American Fever, using tuberculosis as a motif to explore questions of who is responsible for high school exchange student Hira’s health and nourishment in the alleged land of opportunity and abundance. She shares how she was interested in interrogating how culture -- and food -- are formed and deformed when transported from Pakistan to the United States.

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