1. Choose two of the writers for this week and discuss how they address the concept of family. How do the writers critique/reinforce/question the idea of the traditional family? What constraints does family place on everyday life? What alternatives to the traditional family do they offer?
The Feminist Manifesto
https://oncomouse.github.io/loy/feminist.html
William Carlos Williams
This is Just to Say
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56159/this-is-just-to-say
Katherine Anne Porter
Flowering Judas
http://www.vitaeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/Porter-Katherine-Anne-Flowering-Judas.pdf
T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/44212/the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock
2. Pick two of the writers you read this week and explain how they engage with the idea of media–broadly defined.
Amiri Baraka
Somebody Blew Up America
https://genius.com/Amiri-baraka-somebody-blew-up-america-annotated
Adrienne Rich
Diving into the Wreck
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/diving-wreck
A Supermarket in California
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47660/a-supermarket-in-california
Allen Ginsberg
Howl
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl
Zora Neal Hurston
How it Feels to be Colored Me
http://www.casa-arts.org/cms/lib/PA01925203/Centricity/Domain/50/Hurston%20How%20it%20Feels%20to%20Be%20Colored%20Me.pdf
3. Discuss how three of the writers this week engage with the idea of markets. Remember “market” is not just an idea associated with monetary exchange but can be an exchange of any kinds of good–even conceptual and emotional ones.
Thomas Pynchon
Entropy: https://www.ifi.unicamp.br/~cabrera/teaching/Entropy%20de%20Pynchon.pdf
Don DeLillO White Noise (read only first chapter)
http://webdelprofesor.ula.ve/humanidades/cpozzobon/Downloads_files/WHITE%20NOISE.pdf
Brett Easton Ellis
American Psycho (read only first chapter)
https://fi.ge.pgstatic.net/attachments/31459_98aec97b2c764e6c831f6963f8441f27.pdf
Sharon Olds
Sex Without Love
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/sharon_olds/poems/19521
Alice Walker
Everyday Use
https://www.acpsd.net/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=6626&dataid=60620&FileName=everyday_use_full-text.pdf
4.Choose two of the writers from this week and discuss how they engage the idea of identity in its multiple formulations.
Art Spiegelman
Maus: https://uniteyouthdublin.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/maus-a-survivors-tale-my-father-bleeds-history-by-art-spiegelman.pdf
Nathan Englander
What We We Talk About when we talk about Anne Frank: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/12/12/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-anne-frank
5. Discuss how race plays into at least 2 of the texts for this week.
Toni Morrison
Recitatif: https://www.cusd80.com/cms/lib/AZ01001175/Centricity/Domain/1073/Morrison_recitatifessay.doc.pdf
Junot Diaz
Drown: https://eng1301blog.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/junot-diaz-drown.pdf
Sherman Alexie
What You Pawn I Will Redeem: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/04/21/what-you-pawn-i-will-redeem
Sandra Cisneros
The House on Mango Street: (READ FIRST CHAPTER ONLY): https://mrperrysclassroom.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/the-house-on-mango-street.pdf
6. How do Tan, Song, and Danticat use the idea of diaspora in their writings? Do they present complex or simplified notions of geographical movement?
Amy Tan
Two Kinds: http://www.gimnazija-vnazora-zd.skole.hr/upload/gimnazija-vnazora-zd/images/static3/975/File/Two_Kinds_-_Tan_full_text%20docx(4%20razred).pdf
Cathy Song
Poems: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/cathy-song
Edwidge Danticat
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work: http://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/s9262.pdf
7. How do the three writers in this model conceive of gender? Is it fluid? Empowering? Destructive? Think about the ways their characters express navigating gender in everyday life.
Allison Bechdel
Fun Home: https://readgraphicnovels.blogspot.com/2016/09/read-fun-home-family-tragicomic-chapter-1-page-1.html
Audre Lorde
Poems: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-lorde
Lucille Clifton
Poems: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lucille-clifton
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