For Tuesday (4/27) and Thursday (2/29)

Let’s talk about Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning on Thursday.  I think this is a really interesting novel to read as we near the end of the semester because it poses big questions about the very idea of the  “post-apocalyptic” and because of the ways it revises the particular tropes and patterns of the “post-apocalyptic” narrative.  Roanhorse’s novel also plunges us into some very current questions about identity, culture, and representation.