It has taken some time for me to come up with an idea for Brief 1's Re-Write, and much of that time involved exploring my literary interests. My interests are quite sporadic since I read whatever grabs my attention, however I do tend to read crime/legal fiction & non-fiction, autobiographies, coming-of-age stories, and a bit from the horror mystery genre. I read often so newspapers, newsletters, magazines, blogs, newsfeeds, online articles/essays make up for the time when I'm not reading a book.
I'm not going to dwell on the exploration process but I settled on basing my re-write on two canonical texts, (The Adventures of ) Sherlock Holmes and Aesop's Fable, The Lion and The Mouse. I'll be integrating The Lion and The Mouse into the Holmes' re-write narrative, as an allegory of the relationship between Holmes and the island of Samoa - set on the southern coastline 18 months after the 2009 Tsunami. The plot will be of a crime mystery nature and it'll be told from a Samoan/Traditional perspective, with the purpose of challenging the British Empire that the characterisation and adventures of Holmes embodies.
Over the coming weeks, I'll be looking into the theories and themes explored in the assigned texts for this paper (Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, J.M. Coetzee's Foe) as well as those within the canonical texts (including other relevant elements), plus research on events during and after the 2009 Samoa Tsumani that will help with developing my re-write.
There's more to come in regards to the storyline, since it's still work in progress. Not to worry - I'll have it posted up very soon in detail.
Katie
Sounds like a great idea. I have read Aesop's fables and the story you picked it one of the most well known, I'm interested to see it tied to Holmes.
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