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Emma Gears wrote a new blog post POV in Lilith’s Brood in the group American Studies: 8 years, 9 months ago

I just wanted to articulate more clearly what I was talking about in class on Friday about the first-person POV in Imago.

In the first book of Lilith’s Brood, we are only given Lilith’s POV through third p […]
Emma Gears wrote a new blog post “Care is the antidote to violence” in the group American Studies: 8 years, 10 months ago

One of the questions that Butler’s fiction consistently asks is, “Why are people so relentlessly awful to each other?” In “Adulthood Rites” and “Dawn,” to me one of the answers seems to be that people act this way […]
Emma Gears wrote a new blog post Patriarchy and Fledgling in the group American Studies: 8 years, 11 months ago

I always like to look up books on GoodReads and see what other people thought, and I came across this (I thought) brilliant analysis of Fledgling.

Reviewer Nick Imrie said:
We do get to see a little of the […]
Emma Gears wrote a new blog post Colonialism in Clay’s Ark in the group American Studies: 8 years, 11 months ago

On Friday, Dr. McCoy pushed us to remember that it isn’t Eli waking up and scratching the original inhabitants of the enclave that set the world up for an epidemic, it’s that people went to Proxi Two and were […]
Emma Gears edited the blog post An author’s intent vs. what a reader perceives in the group American Studies: 8 years, 11 months ago

On Friday, Dr. McCoy brought up the difficulties Octavia Butler had with her readers’ reactions to Bloodchild, namely the insistence that it was about slavery, even though Butler herself said that it wasn’t. This is something that all writers struggle with; how can I make the themes of my story, poem, etc. clear to readers? How can I be sure that…[Read more]
Emma Gears edited the blog post Dominion and The Aeneid in the group American Studies: 9 years, 4 months ago

Spoilers if you haven’t finished Dominion yet!

One thing that struck me about the last section of Dominion, Lamentations, was how similar the plot was to Virgil’s Aeneid. If you strip proper names from the plot of Lamentations, this is what it sounds like:

A man, who is exceptional for his physical prowess, has a duty to his people/family t…[Read more]
Emma Gears edited the blog post Dream Houses in the group American Studies: 9 years, 5 months ago

It’s funny to me how something can have slipped entirely out of your memory, and then the barest hint of anything related to it can pull the whole memory to the forefront of your mind.

I’d completely forgotten that I’d ever seen Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House before, and I didn’t realize it when Dr. McCoy said the title of the movie out…[Read more]
Emma Gears wrote a new blog post How Much Does Language Matter? in the group American Studies: 9 years, 5 months ago

I have been thinking about what Dr. McCoy said on Monday about using ‘slave’ vs. ‘enslaved person’. This issue of language is something that has bothered me a lot in the past.

I absolutely agree with Dr. McC […]
Emma Gears edited the blog post Good Writing and Trust in the group American Studies: 9 years, 6 months ago

As Dr. McCoy pointed out a couple classes ago, we all started to read The Turner House with expectations. For me, a lot of my expectations for the novel were framed by the fact that we’re reading this in a college course and plenty of news outlets had named it the best book of the year. However, pretty much all of my expectations were thwarted, a…[Read more]
Emma Gears edited the blog post Killing Female Characters in the group American Studies: 9 years, 6 months ago

In my small group discussion today, the questione was asked, “Why did Cordelia have to die?” This bothered me a lot when I finished reading King Lear, because Cordelia’s death doesn’t seem to have any immediate purpose other than increasing the drama and tragedy of the final scene. I want to talk about how Cordelia’s death was portrayed and offer…[Read more]

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