Evolving Narrative: Storytelling from Factory Floor to Concrete Pour
It’s strange how you can take note of something once, and then all of a sudden, that obscure thing keeps popping up over and again. When recently teaching James Weldon Johnson’s Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, published in 1912, I was intrigued by a passage describing the narrator’s employment in Jacksonville, Florida: because of his education, he became un lector, a reader in a cigar factory. Next, the very contemporary A Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli found its