Between The Purple Passages


by Ashley Zimunya


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  • Prose and Poetry
  • The Stage and Beyond
  • Faith and Culture
  • Book ReviewsReviews
  • Past Essays
  • ‘Of Envy’ in Christian Womanhood

    I recently revisited some of the Francis Bacon essays that were assigned as reading in the first year of my literature degree and was having a grand old time enjoying the transhistoricity of Bacon’s thoughts until I got to a line in ‘Of Envy’ that made my heart drop to… Continue reading

    Faith and Culture
    Christian Womanhood, Christianity, Envy, Womanhood

About

If your hobbies also include reading, thinking excessively about everything you read, and learning other people’s thoughts on the things they’ve read recently or a long time ago, you’re very welcome here!

This is where you can find my observations on various texts (a text here being anything that can be ‘read’ and thus including film, theatre, or Taylor Swift lyrics, for example) and what I think can be found between their “purple passages”.

Recent Posts

  • Review: The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods (One More Chapter, division of HarperCollins, 2023)
  • Review: If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (Dial Press, 1974)
  • ‘Thou art a Roman, be not barbarous’: Civilisation & Barbarism in Titus Andronicus and Othello
  • ‘An Act of Love’: The Representation of Bodily Autonomy and Free Choice in Octavia Butler’s ‘Bloodchild’
  • Foreigners and Foreignness in Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Dutch Church Libel (1593)

Recent Posts

  • Review: The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods (One More Chapter, division of HarperCollins, 2023)
  • Review: If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (Dial Press, 1974)
  • ‘Thou art a Roman, be not barbarous’: Civilisation & Barbarism in Titus Andronicus and Othello

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