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What a way to end the course! I really liked this novel – I felt like the way that it opened placed us right in the center of everything having had happened, which put us right in the shoes of the confused, sick protagonist trying to figure out where she is and where her daughter […] read full post >>

We’ve reached the end of the course, and we’ve done it at perhaps the perfect place: the end of the... read full post >>

We’ve reached the end of the course, and we’ve done it at perhaps the perfect place: the end of the... read full post >>

I never thought I would say this about a university literature class, but I'm sad it's over. I had such a great time discussing these experimental and different novels with everyone and I really value and appreciate all the dynamic, thought-out, and en... read full post >>

I never thought I would say this about a university literature class, but I'm sad it's over. I had such a great time discussing these experimental and different novels with everyone and I really value and appreciate all the dynamic, thought-out, and en... read full post >>

Overall, I really enjoyed this novel. As a sociology major, many of my classes focus on environmental impacts on foreign communities, so it was interesting to read a fictionalized take on the modern technology intervention of pesticide use in rural com... read full post >>

Overall, I really enjoyed this novel. As a sociology major, many of my classes focus on environmental impacts on foreign communities, so it was interesting to read a fictionalized take on the modern technology intervention of pesticide use in rural com... read full post >>

week12. papi – I liked reading Rita Indiana’s Papi. I think in terms of playfulness, creativity, and breaking normal bounds, Papi ranks pretty high among the other books we’ve read. It felt nostalgic, intimate, and warm in ways that many other books could not have and did not achieve. I think it was unusual for me to feel […] read full post >>

Rita Indian’s Papi was a nostalgic and emotional read for me. My family hails from Santo Domingo, La República Dominicana, like the narrator, and the many allusions to Domincian life and culture were both comforting and amusing. Mentions of mangú, Malecón, polo shirts, palm fronds, merengue, Taino idols, loud speakers mounted to cars, welcoming parties at […] read full post >>

The question of "truth" from the lecture video brings my mind back to our in-class discussion regarding I, Rigoberta Menchu and the varied perspectives toward truth throughout that book. The difference with My Tender Matador is that the question o... read full post >>