Oroonoko – 2/5 Stars This novel, or maybe not a novel, came out in 1688 and like most early novels there is a strong narrative discomfort in the telling of narrative fictionally. So throughout the novel there’s a lot of extra-text discussions of the truth of the story. Novels have often been mistrusted because of this, but of course, the goal and function of fiction is that sometimes truth isn’t fully explored in nonfiction. And like with theater and poetry, there is a need to […]
Going home means getting lost, too.
My brother was enrolled in a world literature course this last spring. I am teaching one this fall, and I am interested in seeing what other professors teach in their courses. So I asked my brother for a reading list, and I’ve been trying to see how my texts match up to his professor’s (who I was friends with at my undergrad, in fact. Hooray for small worlds colliding!). I’ve read several of the texts on the list, but I have to confess less familiarity […]