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What a Wonderful World – Conclusion on RMST 202 by Jonathan Jang

Can you believe it guys? The end of the school year! Just a week away! The end of the school year is in a week! Wahoo! I am so happy about this information!! The end of the school year! Just a week away, oh wow! Can you believe it? The end of the school year […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Conclusions, culture, end of the year, flexibility, loveless marriage, mommy complex, wahoo!

The Book of Chameleons

 Hey everyone! I can’t believe this is already my last novel in this course; time really does fly! This class has been so much fun and a rewarding experience. I almost don’t want it to end so soon. This week, I read the “Book of Chameleons” writte…

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with change, culture, identity, memory, Transformation

The Book of Chameleons

 Hey everyone! I can’t believe this is already my last novel in this course; time really does fly! This class has been so much fun and a rewarding experience. I almost don’t want it to end so soon. This week, I read the “Book of Chameleons” writte…

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with change, culture, identity, memory, Transformation

macabéa is so real for this (she’s my star).

“The Hour of the Star” is written by Brazilian author Clarice Lispector. First of all, I love Clarice Lispector’s way of having a male be the narrator- that being Rodrigo, rather than it being herself. Lispector’s thinking and reasoning for every small detail from the title to the philosophy all over the book fascinated me […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with character, culture, Gen-Z, girlhood, innocence, playful, TheHourOfTheStar

Deep Rivers

Deep Rivers by José María Arguedas.   This week’s read was definitely a ride for me. I don’t think I’ve ever looked up words or referred to the footnote this much when reading a book, but it was fascinating reading about the culture, their language, and the nature of the Andean people. I really liked […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with culture, Deep Rivers, indigeneity, mixedness, Peru

Halfbreed humans

This book was long. Yet so immersive and so interesting, with its integrated Quechuan words with their translations at the footnote. I found the usage of these untranslated words helped me understand and visualize the culture the author has tried to portray. In addition to the descriptions of towns, the churches, the bell ringing, lighting […]

Posted in Arguedas, Blogs | Tagged with alienation, childhood, Colonialism, culture, injustice, language, Music, postcolonialism, race

Black Shack Alley- Colonialism and Racism

I can’t quite believe that just last week we were talking about incest and now we are making a sharp turn towards racism and colonialism. Black Shack Alley is one of the stand out novels that I have enjoyed so far in this class. This reading feels a lot more reminiscent of common literary novels […]

Posted in Blogs, Zobel | Tagged with childhood, Colonialism, culture, education, power, racism

Deep Rivers

Hello! This week’s book is called Deep Rivers and it is written by José María Arguedas. The story is narrated by Ernesto, a young child of mixed blood (both indigenous and white), who is taken to a Catholic boarding school. Ernesto’s coming-of-age experience is chronicled in the book as he struggles with his identity and […]

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Concluding Post

This was by far the most interesting literature course I have taken so far. The format allowed me to be flexible in the way I was reading the novels. While in previous literature classes I have taken I was required … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with culture, Dreams, format, literature, reality, romance, translation

Thoughts on Carlos Fuentes’ “The Old Gringo”: Two Places and the Spaces Between

Reading Carlos Fuentes’ “The Old Gringo” felt like being taken into a place somewhere between two cultures, somewhere between past, present, and future, somewhere between sleeping and waking. This feeling, of occupying a space in between seems to me a central theme of the novel, in which it’s primary premises are the exact interrelations between […]

Posted in Blogs, Fuentes | Tagged with America, culture, dream, Mexico, Poetry, time

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