English 375

In every society there also exist notions of difference between men and women, rich and poor, nobility and ordinary folk. Concepts of gender, class, and national difference have a profound effect on how any culture understands its own boundaries … (6)
In the introduction to Skakespeare, Race and Colonialism, Ania Loomba discusses the ways in [...]

… who will be brave enough to get start us off? Here is the link.

I have removed the Houston Baker reading from the syllabus for Tuesday so that we can finish our discusion of Oroonoko the first-half of class and discuss the Black Atlantic the second-half of class. So, be sure to blog about Oroonoko (if you haven’t already) as well as the Black Atlantic.
See you Tuesday, and thanks [...]

Hey everyone,
I hope you are enjoying the long weekend. I have converted the online versions of next week’s black mariner narratives to pdfs, which should facilitate our discussions of the texts in class.

A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprizing Deliverance of Briiton Hammon, A Negro Man
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah [...]

From now on I will convert the online texts to pdfs in order to maintain consistent pagination to facvilitate class discusssions. I have converted Oroonoko; or, the Royal Slave by Aphra Behn into a pdf which you can download here. I will do this for the black mariner narratives we will be reading [...]

I want to draw your attention to a new plugin I have enabled on everyone’s blog: a quick link to a wikipedia entry. If you look at my second comment on Lenore’s blog, you will see this functionality put to use. What does it do? When you wrap a term in double brackets [...]

As mentioned in class today at Emily’s behest, there are several different themes (another term for “skins”) your class blog can have. The following link to the WordPress theme browser (developed and hosted by Alex King, one of the creators of WordPress) will give you an idea of the various possibilities available to you. You [...]

As stated in class, please read the excerpt from Ania Loomba’s  Shakespeare, Race and Colonialism and the the first two acts of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.   Also, do not forget to post questions, ideas and reflections on the readings in your blog by tomorrow morning at 11 am.
Additionally, be sure to post a flickr image tagged [...]