Get out of Cape Cod
Some thoughts for the end of the term. One aspect of reading the Walcott that I really enjoyed was being able to read into details and word choices again after spending most of the term studying form and argument. (In continuation of my post on Rousseau – it’s not philosophy!!) What made the property of […] Continue reading →
Questions for Carpentie
Alright folks. Here are some questions I have about Carpentier’s text Essentially every character in this text takes violence to be a norm. Violence is everywhere and Carpentier makes it graphic. Violence is public, violence is private, spoken and unspoken. … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Are you Spanish or French?
I struggled for a while with pronouncing Carpentier’s name because he was Cuban but Carpentier isn’t a Spanish last name; then I learned that his father was French. All my questions are answered. This is only semi-appropriate because I can not for the life of me think of any good questions for this text, but […] Continue reading →
The Kingdom of this World
A couple of things really interest me about Carpentier’s The Kingdom of This World. The use of imagery was striking, most likely because of the fact that none of the works up until this point have used it to this extent. … Continue reading → Continue reading →
til kingdom come
In the process of coming up with a title I came up with a grand total of three things: 1) one of my favorite quotes: “Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies” from Edna St. Vincent Millay; Kingdom Come by the Civil Wars; the very random, but (at least I think it is) seemingly well […] Continue reading →
The Carpentier Who Built the Kingdom (of this World)
I completely forgot that it was my week to blog. When I first read the title of Kingdom of this World, I didn’t know what to expect or to even like it as much as I did. The books we’ve been assigned for the past two weeks have probably been my favourite set so far. […] Continue reading →
Some thoughts on Carpentier
I literally JUST remembered I was supposed to post this last night. Whoops! The Kingdom of This World is easily in my top 3 books we’ve read so far. I found the tone very conversational, the characters multi-faceted (and investable emotionally) and the plot interesting. Here are a few things I paused to think about and […] Continue reading →
silencio
I have come to the conclusion that my clever supply is being steadily depleted because I spent three minutes trying to come up with a title and all I could do was remember a Harry Potter spell. It’s all downhill from here guys. The point of me sticking my toes (maybe I should say fingers […] Continue reading →
Silencing the past (and present?)
This is actually my week to blog. Woohoo! So I did one of my favourite things to do when I don’t quite know what something means (it happens a lot when some colleagues use big words in seminar) – I Googled this book. And one of the first things that came up is a book […] Continue reading →
Silencing the past (and present?)
This is actually my week to blog. Woohoo! So I did one of my favourite things to do when I don’t quite know what something means (it happens a lot when some colleagues use big words in seminar) – I Googled this book. And one of the first things that came up is a book […] Continue reading →