But how do they think this will help the white nationalist cause?The “alt-right” – a movement of internet-savvy, far-right nationalists in the United States – likes to provoke. The latest alt-right controversy follows the group’s apparent appropriation of the works of one of England’s best loved novelists – Jane Austen. “To my surprise, invocations of Austen popped up in many alt-right online venues,” Wright wrote in an article for The Chronicle of Higher Education. Looser also points out that Austen wrote “fiction, not treatises.”“Even if this means the implications of her fiction are more politically slippery, I’m grateful for that,” she added. It’s a trenchant piece of social commentary and social criticism, when read in the context of the novel as a whole.”

Source: Daily News Egypt March 23, 2017 13:07 UTC