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To: gatechie
My English teacher for Early American literature was a blatant Feminazi. Every book we read for the course was about a turn of the century woman from upper class circles that committed suicide at the end of the book.

Sounds a lot like my high school English class. Was The Awakening by Kate Chopin amoung the books you had to read?

The worst book I've read recently is La Femme Rompue by Simone de Beauvoir, for a college French class. I'm in the middle of reading Les noces barbares for the same class, and it's even worse. Sometimes I find myself trying not to understand French.

233 posted on 11/02/2002 11:57:21 AM PST by KfromMich
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To: KfromMich
Hey! Great minds travel the same channels! Look at Post 192!

Boy, The Awakening was awful! If you want to read about New Orleans, read Lafcadio Hearn instead. Much more fun to read, and no PC BS either. Strange bird but an excellent writer in the rather florid and dramatic Victorian style. His "New Orleans Sketches" is absolutely riveting, with such topics as the life and death of the last of the old Voodoo "houngans" or high priests, and superstitions connected with Voodoo and other New Orleans traditions. Also pathetic stories of love and loss, one in particular, "Chita", turns on a yellow fever epidemic and a hurricane (hey, it's Victorian drama, but it's great!).

Hearn later moved to Japan, married the daughter of a Samurai, took a Japanese name, and became immersed in a new role as the interpreter of Japan to the West. His translations of Japanese ghost stories are superb -- I have told them to my children's school classes on Hallowe'en with gratifying results. ;-)

234 posted on 11/02/2002 12:20:12 PM PST by AnAmericanMother
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