tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post404196824331801422..comments2024-03-15T01:11:32.832-07:00Comments on Bardiac: Listening to Robinson's HomeBardiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-78381515962556905742009-12-03T22:58:03.197-08:002009-12-03T22:58:03.197-08:00Hmmm. I haven't read Home yet -- it's on ...Hmmm. I haven't read Home yet -- it's on my shelf -- but loved Gilead, in which this story was a minor piece. It's so interesting about the complexities of place and generation and connection.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09716705206734059708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-34165764458273558452009-12-02T09:20:25.036-08:002009-12-02T09:20:25.036-08:00My fundamentalist students do seem to think they o...My fundamentalist students do seem to think they owe everything to their parents, who (in return) owe nothing to them. It's the God-subject relationship writ small. As creations, humans owe everything to God, who owes nothing to humans. See Job for what has always to me seemed a non-explanation.<br /><br />Anyway, returning to the parent/child relationship question, it's a huge problem whenever we try to discuss parents & children in literature classes, since we don't start from the same zero world. In theirs, parents do own children; and children have no right at all to question parents, or ever disobey any request or demand made by a parent. (Try teaching Kafka with students with that worldview.)delagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18197857250240640822noreply@blogger.com