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ENGL 353. Fall 2019. Dr. Scanlon.

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Author: Katia Savelyeva

Katia’s final project

Here’s the illustrations for my final projects. I guess I should have predicted that my final project would come down to the salvation, whether brief or lasting, that we have the capacity to find in each other. I exist, and

Katia Savelyeva December 10, 2019December 10, 2019 Blog 2 Comments Read more

the dreaded personal connection post

Guess I’m talking about this! [uh, trigger warning for suicide in the context of it being dealt with in Vuong’s poetry.] There’s a whole lot to feel things about in Night Sky with Exit Wounds. There’s a lot that’s so

Katia Savelyeva December 6, 2019December 6, 2019 Blog 3 Comments Read more

the politics of hope

I’ve chosen to cut how I came to this train of thought, but here is the basic observation where it starts: there exists a genre of popular media in America that spends two hours critiquing systems of oppression within it

Katia Savelyeva November 28, 2019November 28, 2019 Blog 4 Comments Read more

not exactly anything profound (also, spoilers up to page 300)

But like… look at this mess Just thought I’d visualize this messed-up, multigenerational web of attractions. Also, am thinking about the fact that I didn’t bother to do hearts and arrows to signify marriages, although Nilima and Nirmal loved each

Katia Savelyeva November 15, 2019November 15, 2019 Blog No Comments Read more

narrative pairs?

I feel like the section we just read is setting up Joey and Lolita Luna in such a way that they’re…. aligned? They briefly meet, have a power struggle over the German and clearly don’t like each other very much,

Katia Savelyeva October 30, 2019October 30, 2019 Blog No Comments Read more

An unsettling thought about Faces to the Fire

Briefly, we talked in class on Friday about Kori saying his mother was “a good woman”, and the varying things that could mean – is Sojin wrong about how he killed her? Does he regret doing so? Is he only

Katia Savelyeva October 21, 2019October 21, 2019 Blog 1 Comment Read more

Thinking about talismans

It’s 12:30 am and I’m emotionally compromised by the book and by outside factors but mainly by the book. But here’s something that came together in my head without really properly coming together: the theme in this book of talismans,

Katia Savelyeva October 4, 2019October 4, 2019 Blog 2 Comments Read more

Going from Kingston to Okada

Me: Okay, this is a really interesting novel with a lot of complex parts to it, there’s lots happening and lots to pay attention to! Let’s try to be well-rounded about it! My brain every time a woman is present

Katia Savelyeva September 23, 2019September 23, 2019 Blog 1 Comment Read more

Katia’s reading questions for September 20

1. This chapter, even moreso than the rest of the book, is highly concerned with language, speaking, and storytelling. It begins with a story retold after going through several sources, and ends with a story told by two people. Maxine

Katia Savelyeva September 18, 2019September 19, 2019 Blog No Comments Read more

Onoto Watanna and difficult authorship questions!

So little class time, so much to say! I really wish I could write a single unifying thesis on all of my questions/thoughts/notes on the segment of A Japanese Nightingale that we discussed in class today. Instead, here are some

Katia Savelyeva September 5, 2019September 5, 2019 Blog 1 Comment Read more

Recent Posts

  • Our class through memes December 10, 2019
  • Final Project Poem: Universal Themes December 10, 2019
  • Katia’s final project December 10, 2019
  • “To America: From 353 Asian American Literature” Lyrics December 9, 2019
  • Michelle’s Final Project December 9, 2019

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