Arghhhhhh I'm Getting A Cold
For the first time in years, I am officially on my way to having a cold. I have achy muscles, a stuffy nose, and a sore throat. Damn these students! Actually, I think these germs came from a classmate who decided to come to class last week sick. The type of sick where coughing and sneezing is involved. If you are that sick, stay home please. Don't spread your germs to others! I really do not need this because this upcoming week and weekend is going to be a busy one. I have papers to grade, a boring ass book to read and a conference to prepare for.
I have started reading novels and short stories that I have always wanted to read and ones that will help propel my goal to be well read across ethnic, racial, and national boundaries. The first book I read was Alice Walkers The Third Life of Grange Copeland. I had read articles that mention the novel, but I gotta tell you, I was not impressed. It seemed very heavy-handed and its psycho-social focus on the pathology of black men and the black family seems questionable. I would not try to teach it, but it may factor into my dissertation now that I now I am focusing on space and trauma and loss and race. What more perfect racialized space of loss is there than the sharecroppers farm, a new slavery with a new name.
The second book on my journey is William Faulkner's The Light in August. Another book that I have heard talked about and never read. I really liked Faulkner's As I Lay Daying and I attempted Absalom, Absalom! but probably need to read it again. So far I am reading it through the lens of modernism and its connection to race. I will report on that later.
Upcoming Works:
South African Literature
Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Gordimer, The Lying Days
I have started reading novels and short stories that I have always wanted to read and ones that will help propel my goal to be well read across ethnic, racial, and national boundaries. The first book I read was Alice Walkers The Third Life of Grange Copeland. I had read articles that mention the novel, but I gotta tell you, I was not impressed. It seemed very heavy-handed and its psycho-social focus on the pathology of black men and the black family seems questionable. I would not try to teach it, but it may factor into my dissertation now that I now I am focusing on space and trauma and loss and race. What more perfect racialized space of loss is there than the sharecroppers farm, a new slavery with a new name.
The second book on my journey is William Faulkner's The Light in August. Another book that I have heard talked about and never read. I really liked Faulkner's As I Lay Daying and I attempted Absalom, Absalom! but probably need to read it again. So far I am reading it through the lens of modernism and its connection to race. I will report on that later.
Upcoming Works:
South African Literature
Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Gordimer, The Lying Days
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