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Read “Previous Condition” then in the Reply box below write a response essay with at least 500 words of your own writing .

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Previous Condition Read “Previous Condition” by James Baldwin and “The Evening and the Morning and the Night” by Octavia E. Butler. Both are in Fifty Great Short Stories. In the Reply box below write a response essay with at least 500 words of your own writing . Put the word count at the top of … Read more

What is your opinion on the desirability of the intersection between contemporary political and ideological struggles and works of art or literature?

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In the realms of literature and literary criticism, there is a common debate whether works of literature should aspire to transcend the time/place in which they were created (and thus become timeless works of art) or whether literature (and art in general) should respond to the circumstances of the world in which they were created. … Read more