Talk:Going Down River Road

suh

Peer Review Notes
Hi,

The outline and information you have included in your article thus far seems quite promising of the finished product. Your lead introduces the premise and setting of the novel as well as the different themes tackled by the author. Your inclusion of facts about the novel off to the side of your article is something which we do not currently have in our article but would now like to add. I noted your comment that this is only an outline of the article to which further information will be added. I am sure that you already have an idea of what you wish to add, but I think that discussing the critical reception of the novel and its legacy within postcolonial literature would complement the information you already have. Because it is a somewhat older novel, you have the opportunity to examine both its reception immediately following its release and whether that opinion has changed over the past several decades. You also mention that the characters in the novel represent the youths who fled the urban slums in search of a better life. Perhaps you could also include a section on the historical context of the novel or, if there is already a Wikipedia article discussing this information, you could make a link to that page. Another idea may be to look at any of the unique literary devices or elements included by the author. For example, if there is the use of languages other than English and how this impacts the text.

As a student who has never read this text, I found your article very helpful and felt that I had a good understanding of its plot and major themes from the information you provided. I will be excited to see how your article changes as you add to it and refine it.

Good luck,

Maddie R (talk) 17:52, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Move and redirect
I've moved this live since there's a bit of work here and would provide a good start for anyone who wanted to add more. The only issue is that there are only two sources at this point in time and I can't really verify either, so I'm a bit hesitant to leave it on those sources alone. I'm redirecting this so that if/when more sourcing becomes available, it can always be restored. I feel like there's definitely more out there, it just isn't searchable on the Internet (at least easily) for one reason or another or can't be verified without access to an online academic database like JSTOR. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  21:42, 11 January 2018 (UTC)