A Literary Analysis on the Significance of Reading, Writing, and Language

    Write a 6 page formal essay that develops and offers textual support for a critical thesis in response to one of the following prompts   “What I say in any language is told in faultless knowledge of skin” (Brand 31): from Offred’s preoccupation with the condition of her skin to Adele’s charged encounter with her mother’s labouring body in Soucouyant, many of the texts we have read this semester explore what is means to be an embodied subject living in the world. Discuss the significance of the body – how it is experienced, represented, and mobilized   2. Discuss one or both of No Language is Neutral and Soucouyant as novels about Toronto. How do their diasporic characters experience, respond to, and write Toronto, and what is at stake in these engagements with the city? In the works of Brand and Chariandy, how do encounters with Toronto and/or the surrounding landscape shape or reflect processes of identity- and community-formation and narratives of belonging?