Essay by Jennifer Shyue
Read Jennifer Shyue’s essay, “A Slice of Writing by Nikkei and Tusán Peruvian Writers (Links to an external site.) ” Notice that she mentions, “Perus tumultuous 1990s,” which was the subject of Death in the Andes, without explicitly naming what made it tumultuous. Then Read, “Simple Heart (Links to an external site.) ” by Augusto Higa Oshiro. (Links to an external site.) In Shyue’s introduction, she shares that Oshiro’s story was inspired by the writing of the famous French novelist Gustave Flaubert’s story, “A Simple Soul (Links to an external site.) ” and “the father of the Japanese short story” Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s “Sennin.” Though the story has what Shyue describes as a “foreign provenance,” what is the significance of place in the story? Feel free to connect it to place in Death in the Andes.