Society, ethnicity, humanity. These seem to be some of the most common topics in any literature, varied from expository articles to fictions to films. While the form is being altering, the theme will always be addressed throughout the whole work in different style, either straightforwardly, such as The Sheer China or obscurely, such as Nacirema. Now, I will make comparison and contrast between the works of Fahamu Pecou and Jenny Zhang to demonstrate, how common ideas can be shared by different genres of literature.
Fahamu Pecou, as an African American with a miserable childhood that his schizophrenic father murdered his mother when he was at a young age, loves to express his thoughts through imagery paintings. Being in the reality that blacks