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The Word And The State, Hadley Ajana
The Word And The State, Hadley Ajana
Hadley Ajana
J.M Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians has been widely interpreted as a political allegory about the use of torture in a security state. This interpretation, though valid, limits the story’s significance. The novel has a broader theme that transcends apartheid and European colonization of Africa in the twentieth century. Coetzee broadcasts a universal message: when words are divorced from truth, the law will not serve justice. This insight applies to contemporary America’s War on Terror.
Voices On The Run: What The Slave Narratives Can Tell Us About The Immigration Debate, Hadley Ajana
Voices On The Run: What The Slave Narratives Can Tell Us About The Immigration Debate, Hadley Ajana
Hadley Ajana
This paper compares three accounts of runaway slaves from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with three twentieth and twenty-first century accounts of Spanish speaking immigrants to the United States. The works examined are Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; Barbara Kingsolver's Bean Trees; Victor Villasenor's Rain of Gold; and Sonia Nozaria's Enrique's Journey. Examining the rhetorical strategies used in the earlier works by the abolitions and the devices used in the modern writing, …