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Anderson Brown's Literary Blog: Toni Morrison on the Origins of American Racism
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Anderson Brown's Literary Blog. Journal of a Serious Reader: African Literature, Irish Literature, Novels, and Beyond. Saturday, March 31, 2012. Toni Morrison on the Origins of American Racism. In her 2008 novel A Mercy. Toni Morrison imagines a frontier Virginia of the late 1600s, a century before the American Revolution. She has found in this time and place valuable insights into the relationship between slavery and race, a relationship that is taken for granted but that is after all contingent. Wealth...
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Anderson Brown's Literary Blog: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus
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Anderson Brown's Literary Blog. Journal of a Serious Reader: African Literature, Irish Literature, Novels, and Beyond. Saturday, January 8, 2011. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in 1977 in Nigeria, the daughter of Igbo academics. She moved to the United States in 1996. Thirty-three years old today she is the author of two very well-received novels, Purple Hibiscus. 2003) and Half of a Yellow Sun. 2006) She was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in 2008.
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Anderson Brown's Literary Blog: Bloody Footnote: Thomas Flanagan's "The Year of the French"
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Anderson Brown's Literary Blog. Journal of a Serious Reader: African Literature, Irish Literature, Novels, and Beyond. Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Bloody Footnote: Thomas Flanagan's "The Year of the French". I heard about Thomas Flanagan's The Year of the French. Written almost a century after the events it immortalizes), another novel of intellectual learning and one where my standard jape has been "it's better at the war than at the peace.". When, after finishing the novel ( never. One of the best repub...
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Anderson Brown's Literary Blog: Ciaran Carson's Tain
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Anderson Brown's Literary Blog. Journal of a Serious Reader: African Literature, Irish Literature, Novels, and Beyond. Sunday, February 28, 2010. The Tain Bo Cuailnge. The subject of a recent post here. Is, I think, a necessary exercise for the serious student of Irish literature (you won't make much sense of Flann O'Brien's famous parody At Swim-Two-Birds. Without it), but not necessarily for the connoisseur of high literature. Such are the bare bones of the story. The reason for posting about it is...
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Anderson Brown's Literary Blog: Duggan's Destiny: Irish Allegory, Curious and Dark
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Anderson Brown's Literary Blog. Journal of a Serious Reader: African Literature, Irish Literature, Novels, and Beyond. Monday, July 20, 2009. Duggan's Destiny: Irish Allegory, Curious and Dark. In the long sad history of Ireland the late 1840s is one of the saddest chapters of all. With the death of O'Connell comes the death of Ireland? Or was O'Connell's reformist pacifism part of the cause of the death of Ireland? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, United States. Duggans Destiny...
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Anderson Brown's Literary Blog: The real Saint Patrick
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Anderson Brown's Literary Blog. Journal of a Serious Reader: African Literature, Irish Literature, Novels, and Beyond. Monday, July 4, 2011. The real Saint Patrick. This is the first time I've posted on two books together. They are a new edition of John Bagnell Bury's 1905 The Life of Saint Patrick and His Place in History. Republished in 2008 by Paraclete Press. And a 1998 Image/Doubleday edition of Patrick's Confession. And the Letter to Coroticus. All of that, mind you, is mere prelude. The basic sour...
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Anderson Brown's Literary Blog: The Savage Detectives and the Untamed Writer
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Anderson Brown's Literary Blog. Journal of a Serious Reader: African Literature, Irish Literature, Novels, and Beyond. Thursday, November 6, 2008. The Savage Detectives and the Untamed Writer. I've just finished reading one of the best novels I've seen this year, easily one of the best five novels out of the past fifty or so that I've read. A few months ago when I read By Night in Chile. Like the man says in Baby Snakes. What can I say about this marvelous elixer? The friendly neighborhood Marxist genera...
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Anderson Brown's Literary Blog: Nazi Literature in the Americas
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Anderson Brown's Literary Blog. Journal of a Serious Reader: African Literature, Irish Literature, Novels, and Beyond. Sunday, May 15, 2011. Nazi Literature in the Americas. Previous posts on the blog have discussed (in the order that I read them of course) Roberto Bolano's By Night in Chile. 1998), The Savage Detectives. 2000), and 2666. 2000) Knowing those books made for a deeper appreciation of Nazi Literature in the Americas. Finally with Nazi Literature in the Americas. Mingles Bolano's invented inc...
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Anderson Brown's Literary Blog: Ancient Celtic Tribes of Gaul
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Anderson Brown's Literary Blog. Journal of a Serious Reader: African Literature, Irish Literature, Novels, and Beyond. Thursday, July 3, 2008. Ancient Celtic Tribes of Gaul. I recommend Philip Freeman's books for rigorous scholarship bearing fruit as an entertaining and interesting book. Freeman is the author of St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography. As well as The Galatian Language. The present book, The Philosopher and the Druids: A Journey Among the Ancient Celts. Philosopher and the Druids (2006).
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Anderson Brown's Literary Blog: How the Irish Saved Civilization
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Anderson Brown's Literary Blog. Journal of a Serious Reader: African Literature, Irish Literature, Novels, and Beyond. Sunday, October 4, 2009. How the Irish Saved Civilization. Thomas Cahill's 1995 How the Irish saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe. His comparison of the strong and orderly Roman culture abutting wild back-country tribes was compelling. I also recommend Philip Freeman's The Philosopher and the Druids. Diary of ...
