He translates his own work, but his titles are released in English two years after the initial publication in order to prioritize the first edition. More than a decade into his career, the author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o started to write in his mother tongue, Gĩkũyũ, instead of English. Other authors challenge norms by rejecting colonially imposed languages. Language itself becomes a character, Sarah Chihaya argues in her review, that both gives and takes from Kang’s protagonists over the course of the novel. In Han Kang’s new novel Greek Lessons, two characters must discover ways to communicate as one loses his sight and the other one goes mute.
Some do so with unconventional diction and twisted sentences others make it the premise of their novels. There must be some middle ground where we can both play with language and understand its power.Īuthors, who have a heightened awareness of the force of words, frequently manipulate them to unsettle their audiences.
Still, as Katherine Marsh warns, learning to parse the meaning of text shouldn’t come at the expense of coming to love literature. Teaching that skill to the next generation may start in the classroom. The information we consume nonstop online, in the news, and during conversation requires an analytical eye. Human beings all have this impulse to develop narratives, but that “storification,” as Peter Brooks describes it, can flatten our understanding of the world and one another. Those communications built up complex conspiracies, such as the idea that the election was stolen. In Meme Wars, three researchers analyze how the spread of trollish phrases and iconography online led to the real-world attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
In recent years, memes have emerged as a fragmented written and symbolic dialect of the internet they have also become calls to action. Language-no matter how we handle it, try to control it, or share it-is powerful.
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