Paige
Manifesto Criteria
FIRST--> READ THE MANIFESTO ASSIGNMENT PROMPT. DO IT, NOW. THANKS. <3 For this post, we would like you to create a set of criteria for...
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WOMEN IN LITERATURE
A joint class blog for instructors Sarah Afzal and Paige Wallace
Welcome to the Women in Literature blog for Sarah and Paige's classes. We're so excited to spend a semester with you guys talking about some of our favorite things. This is the space where we'll all work hard to create community. We're using this blog to strengthen your writing and communication skills. Social media is a huge part of our society and learning how to interact and create meaningful conversation in these spaces is incredibly important.
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Paige
Time-Travel--A Fluid Past and Present?
Both Kevin and Dana know that they can't change history. They say: "We're in the middle of history. We surely can't change it" (p. 100);...
Paige
Trauma, Comedy, and Identity
While reading Juliet Takes a Breath, we have discussed the role of humor in telling stories that are about trauma. Gabby Rivera creates a...
Sarah A.
Persepolis: From Comic to Animation
Now that you have read the graphic novel and watched the film adaptation of Persepolis, let’s consider the significance of medium and...
Sarah A.
"When you expose a problem, you pose a problem": Naming, Reclaiming, & Living a Feminist Life
In Chapter 1 (“Feminism is sensational”) of Living a Feminist Life, Ahmed talks about problems with names (31) – “We encounter racism and...
Paige
Tar Baby: Character Analysis
For this post, choose two of the following discussion questions to respond to: 1. In what ways does Jadine represent consumer-capitalism?...
Paige
Reading Tar Baby with an ecofeminist lens
The accounts of nature and the men who enter into these wild spaces for some kind of spiritual exigence are deeply embedded in the...
Paige
The Danger of a Single Story
During we class we watched "The Danger of a Single Story." What single stories have impacted your life? Has this been negative or...
Paige
She's Beautiful When She's Angry
Filmmaker, Mary Dore, does not gloss over the internal quarrels of feminism in She's Beautiful When She's Angry. The film aims to fully...
Paige
Re-Vision
What is Adrienne Rich suggesting about the literary canon in "When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-vision?" How does she define re-vision...
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