Word: fictions
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Vidal is also confronting the fact that old friends are dying of AIDS. He does not advertise his homosexuality, but a reader of his fiction, notably Myra, Kalki, Duluth and of course Golgotha, knows that he hates the chains of sexual identity. Throughout his literary career he has played endlessly with the notions of bisexuality or transsexuality. If readers find the new novel repellent, it may be that it is no longer easy to laugh at scenes in which Nero rapes Timothy ("Tighten those beautiful little buns") or to laugh off lewd goings-on along the missionary trail...
...while her fiction is often taught in Courses that dwell on political themes, Harper says, it is not political...
This fall, she will teach, an Afro-Am seminar, "Domestic Life in Literature," and a fiction writing workshop...
...select students for her fiction writing workshops, Kincaid surprised applicants by asking them to write about a tree...
While much of her work is taught in courses that focus on "ethnic fiction," Kincaid says she would really rather not be categorized that...