Teresa de la Parra’s Mama Blanca’s Memoirs was a pleasant read filled with feelings of childhood, memory, and nostalgia. Additionally, the book also fed thoughts on accuracy—and distortion—of representations, different perspectives within narratives, and the nature of storytelling. Lastly, Teresa de la Parra’s book provided an interesting—perhaps inaccurate, to an extent—depiction of the realities of […]
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Hey! First of all, we started the term strong. I enjoyed this first week’s lecture. The one thing I particularly…
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This book was interesting. The writing is quite poetic; A couple of my favourite lines are, “A prayer that was swallowed up in the dark night of unnoticed things” (88) and the idea of being “silent with grief, though bursting with questions” (98). De La Parra wrote, “like poets, we discovered secret affinities and mysterious […]
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When reading Teresa de la Parra’s “Mama Blanca’s Memoirs” I was struck by its overwhelming theme of memory, and how remembering far away details through a youthful lens (as Blanca’s memories are of childhood) can completely transform the way we remember the truth. More specifically, I was really moved by how the story toys with […]
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Hi everyone! My name is Alison and I am a third year psychology student. This is my second semester at UBC as I was currently studying at the University of Calgary for the previous two years. I am not new to taking literature courses as I took GRSJ 224…
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Hi everyone! My name is Alison and I am a third year psychology student. This is my second semester at UBC as I was currently studying at the University of Calgary for the previous two years. I am not new to taking literature courses as I took GRSJ 224…
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Hi everyone! My name is Elisabeth and I am a third year psychology student. This is my first time taking a literature course at UBC and I am so far very intrigued by both the content and the nature of the course! I love that this course allo…
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Hi everyone! My name is Elisabeth and I am a third year psychology student. This is my first time taking a literature course at UBC and I am so far very intrigued by both the content and the nature of the course! I love that this course allo…
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Hello everyone! My name is Cadence, and I am a 3rd-ish year arts student majoring in Psychology. I say ish because I originally spent my first 2 years here at UBC working towards a Bachelor of Science in biology, but, …
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Hello everyone! My name is Cadence, and I am a 3rd-ish year arts student majoring in Psychology. I say ish because I originally spent my first 2 years here at UBC working towards a Bachelor of Science in biology, but, …
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