Author: Romana Petkovska

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Unreliable Narrator as a Precarious Subject in Mona Awad’s “Bunny”

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The contemporary novel Bunny (2019) by Mona Awad is a criticism of Ivy League schools, elitism, and white privilege. On the one hand, it is narrated by Samantha, an unreliable narrator with an unstable mind – probably due to schizophrenia – and a not-like-other-girls attitude and portrayal. She is insecure, shy, and anti-social. The teacher […]

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To Be a Mother, Or Not to Be?

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While reading a novel named Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason, one paragraph caught my attention. It made me realize that femininity and being a woman are socially constructed on many levels: “Do you know what annoys me so much? If I got hit by a car while we’re crossing and died, in the newspaper […]