Blasting out the past in Milkman: A Closer Look at JML 47.2

 

Take a closer look at JML 47.2. JML author Daniel R. Adler discusses Anna Burns's narrative experiments as a means to approach traumatic experiences, writing

After Milkman won the 2018 Man Booker Prize, it inspired some pretty extreme reactions. Some disliked it for its long paragraphs, digressions, and unnamed narrator. Other readers found the text’s thematic focus on sexual harassment during Northern Ireland’s Troubles era complicated by such elements. Perhaps because of Milkman’s success as a #MeToo text, certain readers had expectations of transparency. If so, has the postmodern flattening of aesthetic tiers caused readers to consider a novel like Milkman either an oddity or a disappointment? 

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His JML 47.2 essay "Making Visible the 'Mental Wreckage': A Historical Materialist Reading of Milkman" is available for FREE, linked in the post.