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...University and a research associate at the Fairbank Center, said she sponsored the viewing because it is the first Chinese movie she had seen about the Cultural Revolution. “In China, it’s a non-subject, a subject the party does not want to talk about,” Goldman said. Travis B. Pierce, a student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ East Asian program, praised the film for its unique, first-person insight into the period. “When I’m in China, I’m usually...
...socially conscious opinons. “Senselessness” is based on the atrocities of the 40-year Guatemalan genocide and the human rights report of the Guatemalan Catholic Archdiocese that exposed the massacres. It is his first work to be translated into English, and it utilizes material from the real report. The novel is a stream-of-consciousness first-person account of an anonymous writer in an unnamed Latin American country, commissioned to edit 1,100 pages of testimonies from survivors of massacres of Indian villages.“Senselessness” begins with the words spoken...
...opens with a first-person voice describing a sepia photograph. This voice then disappears from the novel until, in the final part of the book, it breathtakingly reclaims the narrative: "I am Mukunda. This is my story." Much of the book is organized in this cyclical...
...imagination, “Blood Kin,” was a much different work, a dark modern-day fable about the people who become complicit in propping up a new corrupt regime in the aftermath of a political coup. Set in an unnamed country and told through alternating first-person narration, Dovey’s novel identifies its characters only by their relation to the deposed “President”—“His Barber,” “His Chef,” “His Portraitist?...
...refusal to be a warmer and more nurturing kind of environment.THC: In the book, Keith says that “there is the event, which simply happens, and the interpretation, which never ends.” You obviously suggest a measure of autobiography through the first-person narration of Keith. To what extent is this novel an interpretation of events from your past?KG: It’s certainly a reinterpretation of a lot of what happened to me and the sort of people that I knew. The function of the first-person in a way is to make some...