More Self-Portraiture
Why is it that I'm having all the good ideas about things to teach after my books have been ordered and my syllabus is more or less set?
Note to self: Consider teaching Spiegelman's Maus as a way of breaking students conception of what a memoir is...The graphic novel format means that visual presentation becomes very important in a way that traditional narrative cannot comprehend...Keep an eye on Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, a graphic novel that reveived much praise in France for its account of the author's girlhood in Iran and how her family dealt with all the revolutions there.
Do add in The Narrative of Frederick Douglass for the Spring version of this course, and possibly the Interesting Life of Oluadah Equiano but defamiliarize these slave narratives with the lesser known genre--captivity Narratives, in which white people describe being abducted by American Indians. (Is there an African version of this apart from white women being abducted by the great Apes?) What might the similarities be between these two genres?
Note to self: Consider teaching Spiegelman's Maus as a way of breaking students conception of what a memoir is...The graphic novel format means that visual presentation becomes very important in a way that traditional narrative cannot comprehend...Keep an eye on Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, a graphic novel that reveived much praise in France for its account of the author's girlhood in Iran and how her family dealt with all the revolutions there.
Do add in The Narrative of Frederick Douglass for the Spring version of this course, and possibly the Interesting Life of Oluadah Equiano but defamiliarize these slave narratives with the lesser known genre--captivity Narratives, in which white people describe being abducted by American Indians. (Is there an African version of this apart from white women being abducted by the great Apes?) What might the similarities be between these two genres?