Word: fictions
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...with heroes who, like him, are brainy, funny, Jewish men -- usually writers -- with intense memories of Newark, New Jersey, childhoods. But Roth has argued all along, most elaborately and entertainingly in The Counterlife (1987), what ought to be -- and for some peculiar reason isn't -- a simple point: that fiction and reality are different...
Last semester, Kincaid taught Afro-American Studies 132z., "Domestic Life in Literature," and a fiction section of English Car, a creative writing class...
...those who live through it, war creates a world antithetical to organized society or ordinary fiction. It is appropriate, then that Camilo Jose Cela's 1983 book Mazurka for Two Dead Men, only recently translated into English, is not an immediately recognizable or understandable novel...
...sere, our memories treacherous, sere and rusted like old knives...it must be in the nature of things." Memory is a bridge but also a trap for Cela's villagers, especially tricky when dealing with murder and revenge as well as the civil war. For in consolidating fact and fiction, truth and myth, memory can create an epic out of everyday incidents. But Cela also questions the relevance and meaning of memory in a world where truth and justice are arbitrary and politically defined. It is not accidental that the Poe quotation also serves as the novel's epigraph...
...Reed has never called anybody a traitor to anybody's race and not only hasn't opposed black women writing about black male misogyny but has published some of it." The test abounds with similar interjections which add to the anti-novel effect of Reed's characteristic mingling of fiction with opinion with fact. As American race relations grow increasingly splintered--with opposition to ethnic studies programs nationwide, and Blacks in and out of the academy under pressure to choose sides, as it were, between mainstream and margin--Reed's satire could come at no more fitting at time...