Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 09:34:56 -0400
From: jhimpele-AT-princeton.edu (Jeff Himpele)
Subject: Re: course: political writing perameters


Q

If your read the posting carefully, it's not so funny because this person
is serious!!!




>jeff, i thought at first this was you going public with "our" joke.....
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>At 01:33 AM 4/19/96 -0700, you wrote:
>>ok--so I have this course i will be teaching next fall to college prep
>>independent school seniors (girls).  the course "political writing"--it is
>>so huge with possibilities that i am struggling and would welcome some
>>feedback about my thoughts so far.
>>
>>it occurred to me that developing the course around the phrase "politics
>>of---" might work well to give me breadth and provide a fairly simple and
>>somewhat concrete outer limit.  where i have gone with the idea is
>>basically to institutions: church, state, family, education,
>>technology/science.  also though i want to include class, race and gender.
>>add to that genre--i.e., the forms political writing takes: oratory,
>>fiction, poetry, drama, music, film, journalism--and now i am somewhat
>>bamboozled.
>>
>>some of the pieces of my thinking include works i think would work well
>>from a lot of different directions; if you can envision a creative approach
>>and would be willing to share your ideas, I'd be VERY appreciative.
>>
>>among the things i am considering--
>>1984
>>Rand--anthem
>>solshenitzen (sp?)--gulag
>>Smith--killers of the dream
>>freire--pedagogy of the oppressed
>>mario savio
>>martin luther king & malcolm x--speeches
>>American Indian oratory
>>Gordimer--? what?
>>Steve Biko
>>Phil Ochs
>>poetry--suggestions?
>>drama--suggestions?
>>Sontag--AIDS and its metaphors
>>walker--possessing the secret of joy
>>bedford--yoruba girl dancing
>>johnson--the middle passage
>>vizenor--heirs of columbus
>>rigoberta menchu
>>
>>because i want to go beyond western writing, your help with this would be
>>most appreciated.  i am particularly ignorant of  asian issues and
>>material from latin america.  I have gleaned a number of possible issues
>>reading postings but specific direction would be quite helpful.  I do have
>>the summer to read though some limits are probabaly a good idea!
>>
>>i welcome ramblings, fragments, flashes of insight, absolute "don't miss
>>this", please don't edit any possibility you may think of!
>>
>>thanks--ciao
>>les
>>lesk-AT-pacificnet.net
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