Week 2 - Cartucho: Tales of the Struggle in Northern Mexico - Nicholas Latimer - On Childhood, Memory, and Regression
Cartucho was a very raw, vulgar, yet equally thought-provoking read. Flipping through each miniature recollection, I kept waiting for context - captivated by each scene in its own way - all the way to finishing the book and realizing that perhaps the context of these short stories was mindfully absent. Of course, leaving out an explanation of where we were at any given moment, what each character was truly fighting for, or where we even ended up - was impactful enough to make readers feel grateful for the completeness of the narrative of their own life - or at least in their other readings. The uncut and strung-together haphazardly series of stories gave me some kind of a manic feeling that everyone in the northern town must have been dealing with throughout the entire period. Most similar to our previous course reading, this narrative was also given from a childhood perspective. Although, as I’ve discussed with classmates already - a key difference between Campobello and Mama Bla...