pickHow can this be anything other than a pick? Toni Morrison writes about American Blackness and whiteness in literature. Calling up classics by Willa Cather, Poe, Hemingway, Faulkner.
Many of the pieces she discusses I had not heard of (Cathers Sapphira and The Slave Girl). I fear many of the issues she brought up in this 1992 work still plague us today
And incredibly interesting (and short) read to think more about lit + race in an intelligent way
pickA good introduction. I think I kept my head above water for most of the book. Unfortunately most of the examples of postmodernism in action were from novels and artworks I was not familiar with so I struggled a bit with that chapter.
Dear Canadians,
I'm sorry our U.S. representatives are complete a$$hats. We don't all agree with them. I can't even imagine how bad the smoke is for y'all. But your response to this nonsense is freaking epic.
Love, lil1inblue
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/premier-us-republicans-wildfire-smoke-ti...
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pickI‘ve never really given a thought about how all the books we read follow similar archetypes; precisely 7 as per this book.
so-soOh boy. It ends in a "meh" despite the subject being extremely interesting, mostly b/c the intro and chapter 1 weren't quite on topic; Frantzen is in literature, not history, so for him the narrative is important enough to spend a chapter on 19th c opera. That said, the bits about Anglo-Saxon England and how later texts reflected it? Awesome.
Photo from Friday; today was so rainy I had to finish the book at the gym after the coffee shop closed.
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