Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Paneta Warns Against MilitaryStrike Against Iran

"i wonder how many on this list read Persepolis, the graphic novel by marhane satrapi. she paints an awful picture of that war, after its initial patriotic phase of iranians defending their country." kenneth harrow <harrow@msu.edu

I thought you said novels are supposed to be fictional, nay fictive, narratives that need not be factual recapitulation of events. You said this in defense of Chimamanda's alleged distortion of the history and sociology of the Igbo society in her novel. Not being an Igbo, I am in no position to make any judgment on the accuracy or facticity of the accusation against Chimamanda (whose novels I've never even read), but I was struck (unnerved is more like it) by your argument that fidelity to historical facts is outside the province of the novelistic enterprise. That, you said, belongs to history and anthropology. Now you are inviting us to gaze at a historical event through the lenses of a novel!

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On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 5:28 PM, kenneth harrow <harrow@msu.edu> wrote:

i wonder how many on this list read Persepolis, the graphic novel by marhane satrapi. she paints an awful picture of that war, after its initial patriotic phase of iranians defending their country.

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