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My So-Called 'Post-Feminist' Life in Arts and Letters
It’s career suicide, colleagues tell me, to speak out against the literary establishment; they’ll smear you. But never mind. I’m too old and too invisible to said establishment to care.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker reports colleagues' warning that criticizing the literary establishment invites smears and could wreck a career. Then they wave the danger aside, saying age and being overlooked by that establishment leave them free to speak. The tone is wry, defiant and mildly bitter.
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