Self-Discovery and the Limitations of Literature: On ‘Call Me Zebra’
Literature is her inheritance, and literature educates her about the pointlessness of a cruel world.
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Literature’s Inherited Trauma: On Jesmyn Ward’s ‘Sing, Unburied, Sing’
By invoking Morrison and Faulkner, Ward excavates not only the suffering of her characters, but also the long tradition of fiction about slavery, fiction that grapples with racial injustice that extends into the present.
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