How do you make moral choices in the madness of war? What happens when violence makes you lose your place among the identities of race, gender, and colonial subjecthood? And why did no one tell me this intense little book was a Greek myth retelling??

Works mentioned:
At Night All Blood is Black (David Diop, trans. Anna Moschovakis)
The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allen Poe)
The Iliad (Homer)
Letter to a Young Lady in Paris (Julio Cortázar)
Evil Dead 2 (Sam Raimi)

Intro! 0:00
Premise! 1:41
Themes! 4:05
Repetitions! 7:25
Violence! Humour! 9:46
Close Reading! 10:52
The Achilles Angle! 14:25
Structure! Pacing! 18:17
WWI Tropes! 25:46
Conclusion! 28:42

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