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Thoughts on Carpentier
Sorry that I’ve procrastinated a lot and therefore this is pretty late, but here are my thoughts: -Carpentier seems to be writing narratives about things probably not talked much about the Haitian revolution like Macandal and his use of voodoo … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Magical Truth
Apologies for the tardy blog post–it won’t happen again. Anyways, I felt rather confused about Alejo Carpentier’s book The Kingdom of This World. In fact, I feel similar to how I felt after reading the Master and Margarita. Confused, unsure of what to do next… novels like these just seem to go way over my […] Continue reading →
Magic is real — The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier
I forgot I had to do a blog post… Sorry! The Kingdom of This World is an interesting novel, and I’m still in the midst of digesting it and trying to get into the “magical realism” of the story. I … Continue reading → Continue reading →
The Kingdom of This World
I actually enjoyed reading this weeks book, as it was a novel. Since master and margarita was the only other novel we have read so far, it was nice to take a break from all the philosophy and dry history … Continue reading → Continue reading →
The Kingdom of This World
I actually enjoyed reading this weeks book, as it was a novel. Since master and margarita was the only other novel we have read so far, it was nice to take a break from all the philosophy and dry history … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Magical history bus tour.
So, I guess I have some thoughts on the importance of history and stuff like that. I was and will probably always be interested in history because of the fact that it’s applicable to nearly everyone of us. I mean, … Continue reading → Continue reading →
A Note on Silencing the Past
From reading Silencing the Past from Trouillot… I can’t help but feel a bit nervous about all the things in history that we don’t know about and the things that we might perhaps never know about. One question – and I can’t remember specifically what the question was, but the gist of it was why […] Continue reading →
A Few Notes on Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality
I’ve been so behind on my blog posts, it’s terrible! This is a draft I had from last week but I never got around to publishing it. Terrible, I know! Thinking back on Friday’s seminar there was a question that I found interesting and I’m still thinking about it here and there. The question was, […] Continue reading →
Arts One’s Got Talent! Nov. 21
You probably got an email about this already, but I wanted to showcase it here and encourage you to do something for this awesome event! I’ve attended a couple of such events in the past and they’ve been really great. … Continue reading →
Troo yo
I really enjoyed silencing the past, I had thought about these things before, but after reading I thought a lot about how much of history we could never know just because there’s too much or an event doesn’t seen interesting … Continue reading → Continue reading →