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[ClarissaMach]

The post-colonial act of redemption on the white man�s part has been to parade a bunch of freaks in native robes as though literature is only a seamstress�s threading of the social fabric.

I could not understand the meaning of "seamstress�s threading of the social fabric".

Here is the context:

Anthologies sent to professors by publishers hopeful for their adoption�three of the latest are before me on my desk�all include the statutory examples from the Europeans, and often "The Lady with the Dog," "The Metamorphosis" and "The Dead" are repeated from anthology to anthology, but Machado remains ignored. The anthologist seems content to have genuflected before the philistine deity of political correctness by including stories from the western and southern shores of Africa that, household though have become the authors� names, seem to have been discovered in a sociologist�s trash can. The post-colonial act of redemption on the white man�s part has been to parade a bunch of freaks in native robes as though literature is only a seamstress�s threading of the social fabric.
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