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In “A Private Experience,” two women from very different backgrounds, different ethnicities, different religions, and completely [...]
April 27, 2012
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In her novel Swallow, Sefi Atta gives us the story of Tolani Ajao and her obstinate friend and roommate Rose. Tolani and Rose are two women [...]
April 17, 2012
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Emotional Crack seemd to me to have the dramatic, scripted quality of a soap opera mixed with the production style of a reality tv show. There [...]
April 13, 2012
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After our discussion about agency and they wives on Monday, I found the ending of the book very reflective of the tensions of finding agency as a [...]
April 4, 2012
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The ending of Graceland reminded me of some earlier passages involving images of fire. While Elvis sits and waits for his flight to America, [...]
March 31, 2012
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The themes of beauty, ugliness, organization, and chaos are evident throughout the first part of Graceland. These themes reflect the organized [...]
March 23, 2012
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In the Onitsha Market Literature article, Nwoga talks about the changing dynamic between women and men. Nwoga claims that “the writers [...]
March 1, 2012
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The loss of Kainene at the end of the novel, particularly the other characters’ reactions to her disappearance, mirrors the loss of the [...]
February 16, 2012
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In Things Fall Apart, Achebe is careful to show the various positives and negatives of colonialism and the different tensions that arise on both [...]
February 2, 2012
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At the very end of Part One of Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo and his tribe face a sudden and terrible violence. Okonkwo’s gun explodes and kills [...]
January 28, 2012
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