Category: Literature

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+ american literature, Americanah, Charlotte Brontë, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jane Eyre, Literature, podcast

Classics & Coffee: Making a Literature Podcast with My Daughter

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During the summer, my daughter, Juliette, and I started seriously talking about doing a podcast. This conversation started earlier, but we really started working on it around June. What arose from those conversations was Classics & Coffee, a podcast where we would talk about books while drinking coffee. This format seemed obvious to us since both of us read extensively. I, of course, read … Read More Classics & Coffee: Making a Literature Podcast with My Daughter

+ Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, four fists, Literature, nigeria, p.o.s.

Performative Acts in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Americanah”

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It has taken me a while to read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, but I picked it up recently because my daughter suggested it as one of the books she wanted us to talk about on our podcast Classics & Coffee. There’s a lot in Americanah, and I do not have the space to even scratch the surface of topics that Adichie covers. Today, I want to focus … Read More Performative Acts in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Americanah”

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+ germany, Gregor von Rezzori, holocaust, Literature, Memoirs of an Anti-Semite, world war ii

Looking at Ourselves in Gregor von Rezzori’s “Memoirs of an Anti-Semite”

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When I initially picked up Gregor von Rezzori’s Memoirs of an Anti-Semite, I wanted to incorporate it into a course alongside Anna Seghers’ Transit, Magda Szabó’s Katalin Street, and other novels focusing on texts by European writers written during or following the Holocaust. However, as I read the five stories collected in Rezzori’s text, I discovered that it may be a difficult text, for … Read More Looking at Ourselves in Gregor von Rezzori’s “Memoirs of an Anti-Semite”

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World War II Literature Syllabus

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A couple of years ago, I started doing something I never really thought I’d do: I began to read and research more about the Holocaust and World War II. I grew up with media depicting the Untied States’ perspective during World War II, specifically the heroic acts of United States service members in the fight against fascism. All of this, of course, positioned the … Read More World War II Literature Syllabus

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+ african american literature, france, harlem renaissance, history, jessie fauset, Literature, race

Jessie Redmon Fauset’s “Comedy: American Style” and the Psychological Impact on Racism

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As I was constructing my syllabus for my upcoming “Black Expatriate Writers in France” syllabus, I wanted to make sure I had at least one text by an African American woman author. Since I as focusing on the South of France, specifically Provence (Avignon, Marseille, and Nice), I wanted texts that either took part, entirely, in the region or partly in the region. I … Read More Jessie Redmon Fauset’s “Comedy: American Style” and the Psychological Impact on Racism

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