Amis-Eagleton controversy
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Monday December 03, 2007 11:27
by tomeile
Ann Talbot from WSWS reports on the Amis-Eagleton controversy .
Ronan Bennett accused the British author Martin Amis of thinly disguised racism in a Guardian article last month . Bennett's article added to the controversy which began when literary theorist ,Terry Eagleton , criticised Islamophobic remarks made by Amis in 2006 .