I wanted to start by saying, I am not one who is particularly interested in literature/ i usually dont enjoy literature courses, but RMST 202 and the teaching team has changed my mind. I loved how i could freely state however I felt about the books I’ve read, without worrying abt it being correct in […]
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I can’t believe its the end of the semester already. Coming to the end of this course, I keep thinking about how every book we’ve read felt so different on the surface, yet somehow kept circling back to the same questions. At the beginning, I thought I would be reading a series of unrelated novels. […]
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I can’t say I’m not relieved that the school year is ending, but I still can’t believe how fast this term felt. I signed up for this class completely on a whim. I remember finding this course on a Reddit post at 2 a.m., and thought, sure, why not? I had no real idea what […]
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A review of Constance Debré, Love Me Tender
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But could that ever be possible if one must “exist without existing” (Amadou Amal, p. 94). Is there even solace in death?
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I really hate endings. They always feel bittersweet and usually end in tears for me (though book endings are usually a different story), but alas, everything must come to an end or something. When I get immersed in books, it’s like I experience the characters’ emotions for myself, so this course’s books gave me a […]
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Looking back on this course as a whole, I feel like one of the biggest things that stuck with me is how much these texts resist being pinned down. At the beginning, I thought we were just going to read a bunch of novels and analyze them in a pretty straightforward way, but instead it […]
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One of the biggest things I learned in this course is that literature is not just about what happens in a story, but how and why it is told. For example, when the class first started I was so lost and was not able to read or understand the books. I felt like it was […]
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The book was very uncomfortable to read and honestly left me feeling unsettled in a way I was not expecting. The book follows the story of three women who are trapped in terrible marriages, and each one of their stories is different yet it connects in a painful way, which shows the reality of a […]
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The Impatient follows three women, Ramla, Hindou, and Safira, as they navigate life inside a polygamous marriage in northern Cameroon, Africa. In this novel, every time a woman tries to stand up for herself or say that something is wrong, the fault is always put on her behaviour rather than what’s actually being done to […]
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