A Breather
Well, I hope the Frears/Kureishi film had the desired effect: giving you a chance to catch your breaths, to gather up some of the trailing strands of recent days/weeks, and to catch some new permutations of our conversations via the film. Regarding those trailing strands, I posted some new material/reflections on Trumpet in the comments section of the "Theme and Variation" posting. Those of you who didn't get a chance to weigh in with some comments on that novel in class, especially, may still wish to do so in these parts.
Other "strands": I'd still recommend that you listen to Kay read some of her poetry. You can do so here, at the Poetry Archive. I'd especially recommend "In My Country," "Old Tongue," and "Things Fall Apart." Thanks to Katie for pointing me to this link from the Guardian, but you might find this an opportune time to watch this 8-minute video clip discussing Rushdie and the fatwa ("and how they shaped multicultural Britain"), almost exactly twenty years later.
Finally, do keep in mind that the research review paper looms (due a week from Friday). Maybe you'd be willing to share the title of your chosen article/book here, so everyone has an idea what everyone else is looking at? Just a thought ...
Other "strands": I'd still recommend that you listen to Kay read some of her poetry. You can do so here, at the Poetry Archive. I'd especially recommend "In My Country," "Old Tongue," and "Things Fall Apart." Thanks to Katie for pointing me to this link from the Guardian, but you might find this an opportune time to watch this 8-minute video clip discussing Rushdie and the fatwa ("and how they shaped multicultural Britain"), almost exactly twenty years later.
Finally, do keep in mind that the research review paper looms (due a week from Friday). Maybe you'd be willing to share the title of your chosen article/book here, so everyone has an idea what everyone else is looking at? Just a thought ...
posted by Eric at 10:36 PM
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For my Research Review I chose 'Rewriting Scotland' by Cristie L. March. It focuses on six fairly contemporary scottish authors and the way their writing works to re-shape conceptions of Scottish identity.
I'm going to be looking at an article titled "Globalization, Postcoloniality, and the Problem of Literary Studies in The Satanic Verses" by Peter Kalliney which was published in MFS Modern Fiction Studies in the spring of 2002. It engages Rushdie's text as one that both strengthens the usefulness of the term "globalization" in literary studies as well as implicates the term as blind to the historically situated social and political circumstances in 1980s London depicted in The Satanic Verses.
This may be a bit late, but just in case anyone else was curious as to other people's choices, I reviewed "'All Skin' Teeth is not Grin": Performing Caribbean Diasporic Identity in a Postcolonial Metropolitan Frame by H. Adlai Murdoch. He discusses the effects dual diaspora had on the Caribbean communities and how they affected British identity.
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