5/21/2023 0 Comments Our sister killjoy analysisWhile in Germany, she meets Marija, a young housewife with a husband who is never home. The main story is of an African girl from Ghana named Sissie who is given the opportunity to study abroad in Europe. The novel is very intentional in its structure, and its monologues by the main character Sissie and the narrator reflect perhaps the author’s own political frustrations, but I found it distracting and incredibly annoying at times. It jumps from prose to poetry, inner monologue to conversation, and you can hardly keep track of the narrative. Of all the novels I’ve read, I’ve never read one quite like this one. One of my posts discussed earlier Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost, and its place as a political novel as well as a poetic novel, but I found when I read Our Sister Killjoy, that it was by far one of the most political novels I’ve ever read, and I think that’s what pulled my interest away. I will admit, as a disclaimer, this was not one of my favorite novels, nor one of my favorite English classes of all time, so know that in advance.
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