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Joy Kim wrote a new blog post Independence? Freedom?! in the group American Studies: 5 years, 3 months ago
Initially, entering this class, I was baffled. I entered with the impression that we were going to focus on works from the Civil Rights Movement and prominent African American authors; with the course title being […]
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Joy Kim wrote a new blog post Modern Day Slavery in the group American Studies: 5 years, 3 months ago
In Syl Anagist, there exists the Briar Patch. The Briar Patch is a place where humanity dies. In it exists thousands of tuners that are “unable to work” and remain alive solely so their power can be harv […]
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Joy Kim wrote a new blog post Cur$!ng in the group American Studies: 5 years, 3 months ago
In The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin, the author, includes a variety of cursing to stress certain statements like shit, fuck, and “rust.” Coming across the first curse word in the trilogy, I was actually take […]
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Joy Kim wrote a new blog post Proactiveness in the group American Studies: 5 years, 3 months ago
Essun raised Nassun in a rather forward, non-conventional way in the sense that if Nassun wanted something she should not wait for others to act first, but solely rely on herself. In recollection, in The Obelisk […]
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Joy Kim wrote a new blog post Indifference :/ in the group American Studies: 5 years, 3 months ago
“Indifference is worse than hate” (341). In The Obelisk Gate, Essun relays her devastation once realizing that one of the people in Castrima has decided that Essun is not a person, because she is a rogg […]
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Joy Kim wrote a new blog post Imprisonment in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
In the prologue of The Obelisk Gate, we are introduced to the world of Syl Anagist from the perspective of Houwha (Hoa, pre-stone eater days) trapped in a “sterile space” that is his prison. In this world, the […]
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Joy Kim wrote a new blog post The Power of Names in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
Names…”Names have power” (239). A name gives us an identity, a category, something to belong to, an overall understanding of what something is. In The Stone Sky, Nassun and Schaffa enter the mantle of the Earth […]
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Joy Kim wrote a new blog post The Nonconsensual Aspect of Childhood in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
In class, earlier in the semester, we discussed Corundum’s death in The Fifth Season (447). Essun, Innon, and Alabaster were parents to Corundum and swore to protect him from the hands of the Fulcrum. The F […]
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Joy Kim wrote a new blog post Women and Their Age in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
Reading The Fifth Season, I was irked as I came across a male Breeder’s weak attempt at a compliment as he said “you’re only forty-three” to Essun in Chapter 14. It was a brief comment, and holds no real signifi […]
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Joy Kim wrote a new blog post The Casual Manner of Sexuality in the group American Studies: 5 years, 5 months ago
Although sexuality has evolved into a subject that has become more comfortable to talk about in modern day society, it is still far from being completely unraveled. Thus, I genuinely appreciate the casual […]
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Joy Kim joined the group American Studies 5 years, 6 months ago
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