Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Ayad Akhtar on “Homeland Elegies” | Amanpour and Company

What it means to be American, both in body and in soul, has been on Ayad Akhtar’s mind for years. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 2013 for his candid and thought-provoking play "Disgraced," examining the identity crisis among Muslims after 9/11. This conversation continues in his new book "Homeland Elegies" - partly a memoir, partly a novel. It looks at the immigration experience through a son’s relationship with a father who supports Donald Trump. Akhtar discusses this fraught family situation with Hari Sreenivasan.
Originally aired on October 22, 2020.
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Amanpour and Company features wide-ranging, in-depth conversations with global thought leaders and cultural influencers on the issues and trends impacting the world each day, from politics, business and technology to arts, science and sports. Christiane Amanpour leads the conversation on global and domestic news from London with contributions by prominent journalists Walter Isaacson, Michel Martin, Alicia Menendez and Hari Sreenivasan from the Tisch WNET Studios at Lincoln Center in New York City.
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His father, the late Dr Masood Akhtar was one of pioneers in the field of Cardiac Electrophysiology

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As a first generation Indian Australian I loved the book. A must read for immigrants to the western world from the Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia and Africa.

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I wish the author was stopped and asked - How can an author so matter-of-factly think one is “writing about a generation of migrants and their kids”-this seems in danger of affirming one dominant story at the expense of others that could not stand-in for “the generation”... 100% agree on the takedown of econ rationalism and Packers analogy. Maybe I’ve misinterpreted and he doesn’t mean what I think - but certain voices repping an entire generation or class seems to be itself such a double edged idea - you buy into it and you create it - which you see in how pervasive he sees the people in USA worshipping money - who exactly is the moloch worshipping “we” - everyone? Everyone who is anyone?