Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:24:16 -0500 (CDT)
From: Quetzil Castaneda <Quetzil-AT-uh.edu>
Subject: Re: course: political writing perameters


OH MY GOD!!! DID I FUCK UP OR WHAT!!!! HOW EMBARRASING.  SHOULD I APOLOGIZE?
NO ONE HAS YET TO TELL ME THAT I WAS BEING AN ASSHOLE FOR MY COMMENT,
BUT...?  SHOULD? i APOLOGIZE?

Q.

At 09:34 AM 4/22/96 -0400, you wrote:
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>If your read the posting carefully, it's not so funny because this person
>is serious!!!
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>>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.
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>>>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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