Unexpected Duo: The Haunting of Infrastructure Ai JiangAugust 21, 2021 The Haunting of Hill House & Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention This week’s novel choices, The Haunting of Hill House (1959) by Sh... Columns0 Comments
Unexpected Duo: Consumption & Sexual Desire Ai JiangAugust 14, 2021 Goblin Market & The Importance of Being Earnest *Contains Spoilers* I think one of the most common metaphors in literature for sexual desire, ... Columns0 Comments
Unexpected Duo: The Patriarchy, Confinement, & The Domestic Sphere Ai JiangJuly 31, 2021 The Yellow Wallpaper & Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been *Contains Spoilers* This week rather than novels, we'll be taking a look at tw... Columns0 Comments
Unexpected Duo: The Fluidity of Culture & The Rigidity of Race Ai JiangJuly 17, 2021 Their Eyes Were Watching God & Oroonoko Race and culture are sensitive topics and are often explored through innumerable perspectives across hist... Columns0 Comments
Unexpected Duo: Trauma Through Iconic Imagery & Individual Experience Ai JiangJuly 3, 2021 The Best We Could Do & Maus I/II Unlike the novels Beloved and On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous that we explored in one of the previous weeks, The... Columns0 Comments
Clones, Intelligence, Art, and What It Means To Be Human: Ai JiangJanuary 26, 2021 Never Let Me Go & The House of the Scorpion The work of Nancy Farmer and Kazuo Ishiguro, The House of the Scorpion (2002) and Never Let Me Go (2005... Columns0 Comments
The Transmission of Intergenerational Trauma: Ai JiangJanuary 4, 2021 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous & Beloved Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous centers on the story of Little Dog, a young Vietnamese Am... Columns0 Comments