Extra Credit
Besides what you have to read, are you currently face deep in some fun-reading? Here are some Postmodernist faves of mine.
I'm wrapped up in the "Wheel of Time" series. Thanks, KB! I really need to know how Robert Jordan's The Eye of the World is going to resolve! It's a postmodern blend of fantasy, gritty reality, futuristic dystopia, and folksy love stories. Fabulism is where my postmodern heart is right now...
Last week I finished The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride. This is a mash-up of secret lives, secret wells, and generational joy. I'm still not over the ending. Thank you, Monkey Pants. IYKYK.
Last year I read The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. He's a well-known nonfiction writer, but this book is a Postmodernist paella of temporal distortion, historiographic metafiction, hyperreality, and black humor. This has magic, Harriet Tubman, and some of the most beautiful prose I have read.
Another book I recently read, coincidentally similar in setting, is The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead. This one does with the legends surrounding America's Underground Railroad what Quentin Tarantino does with the Manson murders in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It's part gritty history, part fabulism, lots of wish-fulfillment, and all terrific.
BOB ROSS 3RD
THE HUNGER GAMES!!
In the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins she gives us a description of a dictated futuristic reality through the main characters eyes Katniss Everdeen (the girl on fire). In her reality the capital keeps a close ruling on the 12 districts after a failed revolution that had happened in the far past. In each district they are treated cruly while the capital and its citizens inside their perimeters sit comfortably. Because of this revolt in return 2 people from each district must go and fight to the death for their district.
Though such a good story this book sends a really good message to the reader about power and control I feel that the bigger message presented would be the disstruction of innocence. All throughout our story we see the mockingbird as hope but appear whenever it comes around we also see that death and distruction normally follows. Everything they do revolves around the mockingbird their pins, solute, brand, and even clothes is represented by it bringing to a greater importance than we think.