In late , a critique of Martin Amis included in the introduction to a edition of Eagleton's book Ideology was widely reprinted in the British press. In it, Eagleton took issue with Amis' widely quoted writings on " Islamism ", directing particular attention to one specific passage from an interview with Ginny Dougary published in the Times on 9 September What can we do to raise the price of them doing this? There's a definite urge — don't you have it? Not letting them travel. Deportation — further down the road.
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Strip-searching people who look like they're from the Middle East or from Pakistan Discriminatory stuff, until it hurts the whole community and they start getting tough with their children It's a huge dereliction on their part. Eagleton criticised Amis and expressed surprise as to its source, stating: Eagleton went on to write that Martin Amis had learned more from his father — whom Eagleton described as a reactionary "racist, anti-Semitic boor, a drink-sodden, self-hating reviler of women, gays and liberals" — than merely "how to turn a shapely phrase.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown , a commentator for The Independent , wrote an article [25] about the affair, to which Amis responded via open letter, calling Eagleton "an ideological relict Eagleton's personal comments on Kingsley Amis prompted a further response from Kingsley's widow, the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard.
Howard wrote to the Daily Telegraph , noting that for a supposed "anti-semitic homophobe", it was peculiar that the only guests at the Howard-Amis nuptials were either Jewish or gay. Our four great friends who witnessed our wedding were three Jews and one homosexual.
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But he seems to be a rather lethal combination of a Roman Catholic and a Marxist He strikes me as like a spitting cobra: Eagleton defended his comments about Martin and Kingsley Amis in The Guardian , claiming the main bone of contention — the substance of Amis' remarks and views — had been lost amid the media furore. William Deresiewicz wrote of After Theory , Eagleton's book, as follows:.
Eagleton is married to his second wife, an American academic, Willa Murphy, with whom he has three children. Eagleton has two other sons by his first marriage, which ended in after ten years. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Terry Eagleton holding one of his books after a talk at the Mechanics' Institute, Manchester , in Salford , England [1]. Karl Marx , [3] F. This section appears to be slanted towards recent events.
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