55 pages 1 hour read

Marlon James

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

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Essay Topics

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Many stories told in Black Leopard, Red Wolf are not true. What is the relationship between storytelling and truth? Where, and why, do they intersect and diverge?

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Written texts and sung verse are both italicized in James’s novel. How would you compare and contrast the different kinds of italicized texts—those read and those heard?

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Orality plays a large role in Black Leopard, Red Wolf. How would you compare and contrast verbal sparring seen in dialogue with Tracker’s one-sided jabs at the unseen Inquisitor?

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