ENCW 202 Spring 2020
Posted in Autonomy, Captivity, Consent, Desire, Desperation, Fantastic on Apr 6th, 2020
In “The Semplica Girl Diaries,” the narrator spends a lot of his time explaining things to “future readers.” In the first paragraph, he writes: Because what do we know of other times really? How clothes smelled and carriages sounded? Will future people know, for example, about sound of airplanes going over at night, since airplanes […]
Posted in Autonomy, Defiance, Desire, Disappearance, Fantastic, Isolation, Obsession on Mar 29th, 2020
As I was preparing to write this post, I became curious about fashion trends throughout history that we, as modern people, might consider fantastic if there was no evidence to support their existence. One example is lotus shoes, which can only be worn by women with bound feet; foot binding was an ancient tradition for […]
Posted in Autonomy, Disappearance on Feb 10th, 2020
The worst thing that happens in The Memory Police isn’t the objects themselves disappearing; it’s the censorship and loss of freedom that comes with it. In the novel, Yoko Ogawa blends the horrors of reality with the fantastic. According to an article in the New York Times, Ogawa was fascinated with the Diary of Anne […]
Posted in Autonomy on Jan 28th, 2020
Perhaps the raw sexuality presented in “The Husband Stitch” might to any other gender seem as if it were an example of the fantastic in its depiction of the narrator’s lust and determination, her unfathomable desire for pleasure. Perhaps to a man, the story might seem exaggerated, false, fiction, and though the story describes it one way, it […]