Self-Referentiality: How is Kane’s text self-referential? In other words, how is this a written discourse on writing itself? How does the text reveal the mechanisms of its own construction? Discuss the significance of reading a novel that is about writing. Notice how the text begins with the protagonist reading and reciting the Koran.

Self-Referentiality: How is Kane’s text self-referential? In other words, how is this a written discourse on writing itself? How does the text reveal the mechanisms of its own construction? Discuss the significance of reading a novel that is about writing. Notice how the text begins with the protagonist reading and reciting the Koran. How does this help our identification with the main character, given that we are both “readers?” Consider how Chapter 7 is an embedded letter. Address possible connections to the self-referentiality of writing in the journal entries of an earlier text: Bèti’s The Poor Christ of Bomba.