Ankhi Mukherjee, a literature professor at the University of Oxford, said that she had taught Han’s work “year in, year out” for almost two decades. “Her writing is relentlessly political — whether it’s the politics of the body, of gender, of people fighting against the state — but it never lets go of the literary imagination,” Mukherjee said, adding: “It’s never sanctimonious; it’s very playful, funny and surreal.”
sanctimonious
/ˌsaŋ(k)tɪˈməʊnɪəs/
adjective
derogatory
- making a show of being morally superior to other people."what happened to all the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first?"
