Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That storyteller must also have understood that even though Schindler, a hypnotically ambiguous character -- he was a drinker, womanizer, black marketeer and con artist -- was operating in a charnel house, he was finally that classically empathetic, inspirational figure, the lone individual doing good in a desperately dangerous context. If you could get an audience to accept that context, you could involve them with a man who, though antiheroic in some of his behavior, was in his essence a movie hero of quite a familiar, beloved kind...
...History proves that when a solution is based in a regional context, it is more effective than any imposed by an outside group," DeZala said...
...There is no question that Mukherjee's creative use of a historical tableau--Puritan New England, Mother England, Mughal India--in her new novel demands a more intense reading than was needed for her previous stories of Indian women and their immigrant experiences in a contemporary North American context, but Mukherjee is doing much more than transporting the woman and her place in a cultural encounter back three centuries. Mukherjee's The Holder of the World should be remembered for its carefully researched and full-bodied descriptions of the worlds that Hannah Easton inhabits...
...program the computer to create a simulation of Hannah's life. It is unfortunate that this compelling historical novel must be filtered through this ostensibly post-modern narrative voice, one that is simply unworkable, intrusive, and weird. Mukherjee's attempt to encapsulate the essence of a contemporary American context fails and indeed takes away from her mastery over the other historical contexts with which she is working...
Perhaps more important, the more vague and abstract such a story is, the more vague and abstract is the impact of the story on the reader. If a story is put in a real context that the reader cares about, the reader will connect to the story. I hope those who picked up the paper yesterday and read the lead story made that connection...