The Canon and Racial Inequality the canon wars were essentially a series of debates among scholars regarding higher level education syllabi in a more culturally diverse society with an increase in women and cultural minorities among higher education, scholars debated how the syllabus should reflect that, veering away from relying on the previously used, white … [Read more…]
Wallace doesn’t like to drink because his parents did – particularly his mother. Wallace found her dead in her chair the summer before he left for grad school. She had had a stroke and still had a cold drink with ice in it. The dinner with his friends – which Wallace already was unsure of … [Read more…]
Wallace – main character; his father recently passed Cole, Miller and Yngve are his friends at the lake – Wallace hasn’t spent much time with them and would rather be home than at the lake with them; Emma and her fiance Thom show up later with their dog They are all in grad school studying … [Read more…]
Olivia Cram Professor Frank Prize Fiction October 1, 2021 Book Review: Shuggie Bain The novel Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stewart follows the story of a young boy and the events of his family that shape him into his young teens. Douglas Stewart grew up in Glasgow Scotland, one of the places the novel is set … [Read more…]
As I get further into Shuggie Bain I notice parallels between the characters and certain people among my own life, making the book a bit more emotional and interesting for me as a reader. Growing up, my mom was a single mother raising four kids, myself being the second oldest. My older brother, much like … [Read more…]
Main character: Shuggie Bain 16 y/o & works at a supermarket – might be 15? Kind of confused about his actual age. Agnes seems to attach to him when she feels lonely. Almost as if she depends on him to need her, just so she can feel needed and have a purpose. Shuggie’s mom lives … [Read more…]
Her definition of literature, “a record of experience” I both like and dislike this definition – it’s kind of cool to think of how abstractly she defines literature but that same level of abstract is what I don’t like about it. Kind of hard to explain Zimbabwe’s political independence didn’t take place until 1980 “Thus, … [Read more…]
Book Review: This Mournable Body This Mournable Body, a novel by Tsitsi Dangarembga, completes a trilogy consisting of the novel Nervous Conditions followed by The Book of Not. Tsitsi Dangarembga started her education through studying/reading medicine and soon switched to psychology. From there, she read many books written by female African American writers and continued … [Read more…]
Main Character – Tambudzai – she is an old-ish woman looking for a new place to live and a job – desperately looking for a way out of her current lifestyle and thinks about potentially pursuing Larky in order to gain the life she has always envisioned for herself Hostelmates – Gertrude (who gets assaulted … [Read more…]
— disclaimer – my shift keys have stopped working so I am limited on the special characters I am able to use. Some of my writing will not make sense and/or be written grammatically wrong — In Susan Gallagher’s piece, Contingencies and Intersections The Formation of Pedagogical Canons, she introduces the idea of literacy courses … [Read more…]
