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
  • The Texts from my Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Non-Fiction Prose 

    1. The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault (Volume 1: The Will to Knowledge (1976) 2nd year text “Briefly, my aim is to examine the case of a society which has been loudly castigating itself for its hypocrisy for more than a century, which speaks verbosely of its own silence,… Continue reading

    Prose and Poetry
    Edmund Burke, French Revolution, Friedrich Engels, Gender, Judith Butler, Karl Marx, Mary Wollstonecraft, Michel Foucault

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

  • The Texts from my Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Non-Fiction Prose 
  • The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Prose Fiction
  • Review: You Are Here by David Nicholls (Sceptre, 2025)
  • 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)

Recent Posts

  • The Texts from my Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Non-Fiction Prose 
  • The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Prose Fiction
  • Review: You Are Here by David Nicholls (Sceptre, 2025)

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