Author Archives: ben arneson

Over the past few months in our ASTU class, we analyzed The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid.  Last blog I took a relatively focused look at the way race was expressed in TRF by specifically examining how Hamid … Continue reading →

Over the past month in our ASTU class, we analyzed The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid.  The book tackled a number of themes that are becoming more and more important, including racism, prejudice, cultural difference, and the idea … Continue reading →

In our ASTU class lately, we read and discussed Safe Area Gorazde by Joe Sacco, a graphic novel about the war in Eastern Bosnia from 1992-1995.  In it, Sacco employs a number of elements to allow the reader to empathize … Continue reading →

In the past week of our Arts Studies class, we read and studied Japanese-Canadian author Joy Kogawa’s Obasan.  This book tells the story of a young Japanese-Canadian girl who is taken from her home as part of the Japanese internment … Continue reading →

In the past week, our Arts Studies class studied author Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family, a memoir of the author’s return to Sri Lanka to discover the identity of his father and in part himself.  Unlike traditional memoirs however, … Continue reading →

Over the past week in our Arts Studies class, we’ve read and analyzed Persepolis, by author Marjane Satrapi.  The introduction to this graphic narrative deals with the issue of misinformation and confusion surrounding the world’s, and more specifically the West’s, … Continue reading →

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