Sarah Stone: Eruption/Incandescence (January 2019)

In those moments when the suppressed breaks into the open as conflict, as an unexpected action, as a flight of language, or as a confession, a work of fiction or poetry can reveal its teeth. These eruptions can alter the rules a work has set out for itself in crucial structural and psychological terms and can create openings for complex resistance and re-evaluation on the part of the reader, Among the texts discussed: Gabrielle Brant Freeman, “Girltrap”; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah; Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger; and George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo.