Many have seen the Hulu adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale, originally a novel first published in 1985 discussing the value of women and their ability to reproduce in society. Both The Handmaid’s Tale and Invisible Man discuss extremely important political and societal ideas. Hulu is now tackling the novel Invisible Man and turning it into […]
People are often looking for the next best thing to replace what was in the past, or they are trying to figure out a way to drag down the present to promote the past. For example, think of the Michael Jordan and LeBron James debate. While each man is accomplishing greatness in his own right, […]
James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room is a story of a white male’s navigations through his own feelings and identity in terms of his sexuality. Not ever fully confronting his love for men, or his desire for women as well, we trace the unbecoming of David, our American foreign in Paris, France. Baldwin states that he chose […]
In James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room I took particular interest in the portrayal of how the homosexual relationships are presented in the novel. The central character in part one of the novel, has sexual relations with a man at a very young age that have a great effect on his life, even years later. The central […]
Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room is a novel that has echoed into the distances. Its implications and its problems are our own. As it were, Baldwin’s world is not so far off from the contemporary. We can see this in a number of popular novels in queer literature today. Yet Baldwin’s scope goes beyond the page and […]
Though Faulkner was far from the first author to utilize the stream of consciousness technique, it is impossible to read As I Lay Dying without confronting the form as a hinge for the ambiguity and complexity of As I Lay Dying. Defined as “a method of narration that describes happenings in the flow of thoughts in the minds […]
After hearing that our class was going to attempt a reading of Faulkner’s classic As I Lay Dying, I hadn’t the faintest idea what to expect. I knew nothing of the novel’s premise, and several friends of mine who had tackled the text in high school warned me to tread carefully, not because the text […]
The Southern Renaissance was a movement within Southern American literature in the 20s and 30s. William Faulkner is widely regarded as one of the most important writers to come out of this time. He was awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949. The Southern Renaissance, and her authors, were responding to the notion that […]
When looking at Passing, there’s an interesting discussion to be found on whether or not the novel holds a certain legacy or impact in present time. Published in 1929, the novel arrived in a time plagued with racial turmoil. Since then equality and racism has progressed significantly, yet one of the themes within the novel […]
Before even starting my trek through Dos Passos’ tour de force, I was faced with the lack of understanding as to what the story was about. I tried using my google skills to bring something up, but nowhere, not Wikipedia nor Sparknotes had anything more than the title itself. It struck me, while reading the […]