Curious

 
Too often critics fixate on multicultural literature’s identity awareness. They become disproportionately preoccupied with the cultural discomfort immigrants face as they reconcile contradictory aspects of selfhood into a stable, multicultural identity. It’s all the rage to dissect literature through the frame of identity politics, the study of the shared injustices suffered by specific social groups. [...]

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“Why I don’t know, but it was the best thing in New York City was to try to get to Bernie Madoff. And to make enough money so that you could get into Bernie Madoff…and everyone wanted to be there because nobody thought that they would ever lose any money.” Barbara Flood’s confession spilled [...]

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Perspective changes with age and situation. I have often read a work of fiction and felt at a loss for not having done so in another set of circumstances. Yesterday I finished Tolstoy’s Family Happiness, a novella first published in 1859.
Most class discussions focus on Tolstoy’s portrayal of Masha in Family Happiness. And my [...]

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