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Shy Radicals: The Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert by Hamja Ahsan, Nina Power
bigtomlaff's review
challenging
funny
fast-paced
4.0
What a crazy book. I originally took this book very much at face-value, such is the cunningness of the satire. Ahsan manages to mimic the language of the overly complicated and political academic publishing, and applies it to a new concept of shyness as an identity. This writing is jarring and has the factor of defamiliarising the topic to make one think about it. But, as you get into the book, it gets more and more ridiculous, until it forces you to start doing some research, only for you to wind up with egg on your face when you realise its all made up. Brilliantly clever.
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