– To what extent is language more important for the postmodernist and postcolonial writers than for the modernists? Is language more stable now? Could you connect the issue of language in SIX STORIES with events happening in our day and age?. 2000 words. Use six of the following stories:
– Borges “The Gospel According to Mark”
– Atwood, “Happy Endings,”
– Vonnegut, “Harrison Bergeron,”
– LeGuinn, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,”
– Updike, “A&P,”
– Wolff, “Bullet in the Brain,”
– Kincaid, “Girl”
– Uyematsu, “Deliberate”
– Valdes, “English con Salsa”
– Espaillat, “Bilingual/Bilingue”
– Abeyta, “thirteen ways of looking at a tortilla,”
