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devk wrote a new post, Final Paper Concept, on the site Cosmic Confluence 2 weeks, 6 days ago
For my final paper I am going to be using the review for Luster titled “Sex in the City: The Black Female Flaneur in Raven Leilani’s Luster” by Kaitlyn Greenidge to analyze the character of Edie from Luster t […]
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devk wrote a new post, Writing With Things Fall Apart, on the site Cosmic Confluence 1 month ago
Vanzanten’s “”The Headstrong Historian”: Writing With Things Fall Apart” argues that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “The Headstrong Historian” uses repetition and separation from themes and characters and ideas […]
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devk wrote a new post, Adichie and The Single Story, on the site Cosmic Confluence 1 month, 1 week ago
In Adichie’s Ted Talk “The Danger of a Single Story” she outlines that stories told that give a singular perspective of what a people’s lives are like creates a false and reductive idea of what those people are […]
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devk wrote a new post, Response to someone else's post:, on the site Cosmic Confluence 1 month, 1 week ago
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devk commented on the post, Adichie and Leilani, on the site caspierson 1 month, 1 week ago
I agree with the assessment of how Adichie’s second-person narration shifts the paradigm in a way and forces the microaggressions onto the “You” aka the reader. I do think there is a similarity in the tone and way […]
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devk wrote a new post, Luster and "The Thing Around Your Neck", on the site Cosmic Confluence 1 month, 1 week ago
Raven Leilani’s Luster and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “The Thing Around Your Neck” both depict relationships with large gaps in power. In Luster, Edie’s relationship with Eric is largely defined by this power gap […]
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devk wrote a new post, The Ending of Luster, on the site Cosmic Confluence 1 month, 2 weeks ago
I find that the closing of Luster reveals something about what Edie has learned about herself, and also what Rebecca has come to understand of their relationship. At this point Edie has already realized that E […]
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devk wrote a new post, Disappointment in Luster, on the site Cosmic Confluence 1 month, 3 weeks ago
There are multiple motifs at work in Raven Leilani’s Luster but one of the key ones I believe is disappointment. This disappointment particularly manifests with the perception of people and how they actually t […]
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devk wrote a new post, My Reply On The Instagram Posts, on the site Cosmic Confluence 2 months ago
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devk commented on the post, Dayton's Instagram, on the site conleyburns 2 months ago
I really love this idea of Dayton essentially just being a wife guy and only fixated on his wife. It is kind of the opposite of how men and women, especially husbands and wives, are usually portrayed and I love […]
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devk wrote a new post, Keisha's Instagram Posts, on the site Cosmic Confluence 2 months ago
1st Post:
I think one of Keisha’s instagram posts has to be about her sports team, since that is one of the things that is clearly very important to her and she seems very passionate about it. It could be a […]
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devk wrote a new post, My reply to others questions about Klara:, on the site Cosmic Confluence 2 months, 3 weeks ago
It’s at this link:
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devk commented on the post, Question for Klara and the Sun, on the site Reading Journal 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Something really funny is that I was also thinking about Detroit: Become Human when reading this novel, as especially later they touch on some similar themes. Although I am not the biggest fan of the game for […]
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devk wrote a new post, Questions about Klara, on the site Cosmic Confluence 2 months, 3 weeks ago
When reading Klara, one of the questions I am wondering as a reader and a writer is what the world-building process for this novel looked like. It becomes clear in later parts how much world-building there is, and […]
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devk wrote a new post, Questions for Leila Chatti, on the site Cosmic Confluence 3 months ago
In Leila Chatti’s Levis Reading Prize speech she mentions how within her story she frames the illness as something that happened to her when she was younger, while in reality it is an ongoing process that she more […]
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devk wrote a new post, Shifting Refrains, on the site Cosmic Confluence 3 months, 2 weeks ago
In Roethke’s The Waking the villanelle alternates between two refrains, that of “I wake to sleep and take my waking slow” and “I learn by going where I have to go.” The first refrain is interesting because it is p […]
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devk wrote a new post, Meter in Life, on the site Cosmic Confluence 3 months, 3 weeks ago
“How’s that?” This is an iamb my mom used when asking me about something.
“Licky! Licky!” is a troche my sister said twice to our dog.
“It’s just weird!” is an anapest my partner said to me.
“Don’t l […]
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devk wrote a new post, An Everyday Poem and Some Everyday Analysis, on the site Cosmic Confluence 4 months ago
WISHES
I wish y’all were here
i wish so bad
It’s ok
Time isn’t
linear
We are hanging out
time is a circle
its all coming back to me now
This is a poem taken from […]
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devk became a registered member 4 months ago
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devk wrote a new post, Lo all!, on the site Cosmic Confluence 4 months ago
Welcome to my Rampages.us.
This is my first post. Trying to figure it out, here is some photos of my dog (if you can see them):
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