Liu’s Story and Cesaire’s Play analysis
In Essay #2, you will Write an analysis of how power relations among people or survival are addressed in two of the fictional literary texts that we’ve read in Part II of the course in relation to one of the secondary sources by literary and history scholars.
What strategies do people use to survive events such as the “end of the world” or situations where there is an unequal distribution of power?
How might fictional characters in drama and stories offer models or warnings about strategies for freedom or self-determination in circumstances where people control or exert power over others?
How does the real-world history of unequal power relations and survival tactics due to colonialism, racism, sexism, economics, etc. compare or contrast with the fictional worlds imagined by creative writers and thinkers?
What do we learn about survival and power by reading historical analyses and fiction together?
