This is the only required reading reflection post for Week 5 of the course. Please use the following prompt to complete the assignment.
Audio Lecture: _Monstro_ Notes And explanation of Expectations.m4a
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Historical Context: The Haitian Revolution, 1789
For more information check out these resources.
PBS, Africans in America, The Haitian Revolution topic page (Links to an external site.).
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p2990.html
Brown University’s History of Haiti entry (Links to an external site.)on the Haitian Revolution’s beginnings.
http://library.brown.edu/haitihistory/index.html
Prompt:
1) Díaz employs a split narrative style to tell this story. We have one story that is a romance plot between the narrator, a college student, and Mysty, the young woman he has a crush on. The other plot-line is the story of an infection that ultimately turns people into monsters. Why do you think Díaz combines these two plot-lines into this single short story? What do the two have to do with each other?
2) The story imagines the evolution of a 40-foot tall zombie monster that emerges as the result of the infection and after a major bomb attack. The infected of La Negrura, fuse into each other and ultimately a literal black mass becomes a monster that attacks the living. This monster arises in the Caribbean on the island of Hispaniola, which contains two nations: Haiti and the Domincan Republic. Can you connect this monster to the history of the island?
3) This is an example of Climate Change Fiction, a growing genre that seeks to understand life in the anthropocene in which climate change is destabilizing life as we know it on planet Earth. What are the references to climate change made in this near future setting?