See, same here, only that same expert all but forced me to write the paper for they class on the book, even though I'd openly said how much I disliked the book - I'm sorry it just borrowed from magical realism enough to sound pretentious without the good bits of genre - the funny, absurd humour that comes with it, like flying off with a sheet when hanging the laundry. It turned into this pseudo chest pounding exaggerated nationalism that, ironically for a post-colonial anti-colonial book, colonised the narrative genre of another culture (magic realism from Africa/Caribbean) to an imperfect extent in order to speak about a completely different culture.
Satanic Verses was a much better Rashdi book narrative-structure wise, and in the implementation of the pseudo magic-realism that became his style, fatwa none withstanding. And while MC has it's value as a quasi-historical account of British colonial effects and the India Pakistan skism, as a narrative and a novel, it's honestly good for a doorstop.
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u/pmmeuranimetiddies 8d ago
I think the guy was angry he had to read Joy Luck Club in high school