To me, this book illustrated how colonialism remains deeply embedded across Latin American societies. The main character, Ernesto, is a mestizo (mixed) boy, and as a result, he feels torn between understanding and exploring both sides of his heritage. …
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To me, this book illustrated how colonialism remains deeply embedded across Latin American societies. The main character, Ernesto, is a mestizo (mixed) boy, and as a result, he feels torn between understanding and exploring both sides of his heritage. …
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Overall a fun-ish read! I think this novel Deep Rivers was very interesting and I especially like the authors descriptive writing style. Throughout the book there was a strong focus on Indigeneity which was shown in many ways. To me the representation of Indigenous culture through nature and music stood out the most. In Ernesto’s […]
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Ernesto’s connection with nature was something that was evident throughout the book. In particular, his view of the river as an entity really stood out to me. To me, it represents the tension that exists in his life between his connection with the Indigenous peoples and his white identity. It was interesting to me how […]
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After reading Joseph Zobel’s Black Shack Alley, I admit that I feel quite… devastated? Not in a dramatic, bawling-my-eyes-out kind of way, but in a slow, kind of lingering sadness that has stuck with me even now. Don’t get me wrong, the novel is easy to read on the surface. The prose is clear, and […]
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This book is tough. The title makes me feel like there will be fascinating adventures, but there are not. The diction is hard to understand as an outsider, hehehe. Another reason this book is difficult to read is that I found the narrator to be less vividly portrayed compared to the books we read before. […]
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José’s experience is shaped by poverty and colonialism in a way far more extreme than anything I have lived through, but the emotional core felt deeply familiar.
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Hi Guys! I enjoyed this week’s reading and as we are reading more and more books in this class I feel like it’s becoming easier to read literature. However, I still found this book somewhat difficult to read. I feel like there were a lot of references to Church names, cultural concepts, and traditions which […]
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Being Peruvian definitely shaped how I read this book. I probably would have enjoyed it even more if it had not been midterm season, but I still ended up liking it a lot. Through Ernesto’s inner conflict you can understand a lot about the society around him. He is mestizo, and because he grew up […]
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