ENCW 202 Spring 2022
Posted in Disappearance, Documentary, Uncategorized on Mar 31st, 2022
“A precursor of the Cinema” follows the life and art of Harlan Crane. Harlan was known to have the most detailed art of all the other artist, to the point of that a magnifying glass. In all phases of his art, his pieces have been known to be lifelike that they moved. While observing Still Life […]
Posted in Alternative Worlds, Disappearance, Women on Feb 23rd, 2022
In “Real Women Have Bodies,” Carmen Maria Machado once again takes parts of the female experience and spins them together to create another horror story. A dress shop worker begins a relationship with the daughter of one of the shop’s biggest suppliers, Petra. Meanwhile, the world is facing an unknown phenomenon. Women’s bodies are slowly disappearing, losing their […]
Posted in Disappearance, Dystopia on Feb 17th, 2022
“And what will happen if words disappear?” This tale almost feels like a contrasting narrative to the short story “History of a Disturbance” in terms of the importance that words have in what each author is trying to convey. Ogawa relies heavily on word-building to recount and express what has been lost. (It just seems […]
Posted in Disappearance, The Artist on Feb 15th, 2022
Yoko Ogawa’s beautifully fantastical novel The Memory Police describes a world in which people are forced to forget items little by little, until eventually they forget themselves. During each disappearance, everyone will wake up “[and] feel that something has changed from the night before.” (1) After this, they must get rid of everything remaining of that item, which […]
Posted in Disappearance, Dystopia, Memory on Feb 14th, 2022
Dystopians novels truly can be one of the most interesting forms of literature, and oddly enough, I find it slightly satisfying when its ending isn’t a “We won and defeated the bad guy” type of happy ending. But it doesn’t necessarily mean it has to be a complete downer ending. The Memory Police, while […]
Posted in Disappearance, Memory on Feb 14th, 2022
Going into this novel, I expected a political dystopia similar to that of George Orwell’s 1984. Despite sharing the theme of a surveillance state, however, the two stories have very little in common. Unlike 1984, The Memory Police, while undoubtedly being a tale about the pitfalls of totalitarianism, focused much more on the individual, existential […]