LOL I mix up Charles Chesnutt with Mary B Chesnut, because I had to read Mary Chesnut's Civil War as one of those Original Documents in a History of AmLit class. Chesnutt sounds very interesting!
I admit I am a huge Plath fan, but I read the Bell Jar in boarding school and I actually think a lot of it is hilarious. There's also bleak depression and sardonic nihilism, but a lot of it is really blackly funny. There are some contemporary impressions that indicate Plath meant some of her stuff to be read as satiric comedy, or that was how she performed it for some close friends.
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Date: 2019-11-28 12:17 am (UTC)LOL I mix up Charles Chesnutt with Mary B Chesnut, because I had to read Mary Chesnut's Civil War as one of those Original Documents in a History of AmLit class. Chesnutt sounds very interesting!
I admit I am a huge Plath fan, but I read the Bell Jar in boarding school and I actually think a lot of it is hilarious. There's also bleak depression and sardonic nihilism, but a lot of it is really blackly funny. There are some contemporary impressions that indicate Plath meant some of her stuff to be read as satiric comedy, or that was how she performed it for some close friends.