Friday, September 02, 2011

Hocus pocus

What are we supposed to think about all the fuku business? The golden mongoose and faceless man and the other magical realism elements?
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kc said...

Not sure what to make of all that. I generally don't like "magical" elements in this sort of fiction. Most of the time I thought he was trying to bring home the insane level of superstition in the Dominican community — maybe to the point that even people who don't believe in it but are raised in that environment end up absorbing some of it. Tony Horwitz also talks quite a lot about Fuku in "A Voyage Long and Strange," so I think that stuff is a big unavoidable deal in that culture.

1:26 PM, September 06, 2011

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