What are the aims of the writers of literature? Well, one of our authors, Jamaica Kincaid in various interviews mentions her “insistence on truth,” even if—especially if—the truth is painful. It is not unusual for writers to insist that in their fictions they present truths, they tell it as it is, they wake us up, they seek to make us take off our rose-colored glasses, and to make us see and feel reality. Joseph Conrad, for example, said: “My task . . . is by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see.” An Introduction to Literature.…