Discovering Racism through The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Post-Colonial Literary Theory allows a reader to look into the history and time period of a book more closely in order to analyze power roles as well as the ways different cultures and groups are treated in the book they are reading. The links below will bring you to a overview that I created for […]

The story of Henrietta Lacks; The town Sweetheart.

For the last week or so I have been reading the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot and have been able to find many aspects of Archetypal literary theory within it. There is a Journey plot, many recognizable character archetypes, symbolism and the texts meaning is shaped by culture […]