I. None of the books we have read this semester are traditional, straightforward, chronological narratives (with beginning, middle, and end, a single plot line, consistent and fairly reliable narrative point-of-view, and so on). Instead, these works break up and entirely reorder time, have multiple and sometimes highly unreliable narrators, incorporate other genres (such as the imitation of scholarly texts in Pale Fire, the pseudo-documents such as
photographs, newspaper articles, diaries, letters), and techniques such as magical realism. Using evidence from the novels Joseph Conrads Under Western Eyes, Cristina Garcas Dreaming in Cuban and Vladimir Nabokovs Pale Fire , make a case that these violations of the straightforward forms add to and enhance the reading experience.
II. Discuss the representation of violence in Jenny Erpenbecks The End of Days, Viet Thanh Nguyens The Sympathizer, and Edwidge Danticats Brother, Im Dying. Consider personal violence (among characters, within families), political violence, historical, imperialist, and national violence, civil war and revolution, and the traumatic effects of violence across generations. How is violence part of collective memory and collective forgetting?
Incorporate all novels listed in each prompt in your response, do not directly quote or provide page numbers for examples from the works, no sources are required just individual unique responses.
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