Questions and Answers for Transcendent Kingdom
Transcendent Kingdom
How does internalized racism affect Gifty's life and sense of self in Transcendent Kingdom?
In Transcendent Kingdom, Gifty describes how internalized racism has affected her life and sense of self from her earliest years: I didn't grow up with a language for, a way to explain, to parse...
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How do Gifty’s childhood diary entries supplement the main narrative in Transcendent Kingdom?
The main narrative of Transcendent Kingdom is punctuated by numerous entries from the childhood diaries of Gifty, the novel’s protagonist. In the novel’s present, the adult Gifty is a research...
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In Transcendent Kingdom, what problem is Gifty trying to solve through her research on mice?
In Transcendent Kingdom, Gifty is trying to gather information from the neural pathways of mice which could yield a cure for depression, addiction, or both. Gifty's brother has died of a drug...