In the light of the recent election, we need to read George S. Schuyler’s biting satire Black no More (1931), especially amidst the type of rhetoric that appeared during and after the November 8, 2016. Schuyler’s novel focuses on Max Disher, a black man who, through the technology of Dr. Junius Crookman, becomes white and rises to power in a white nationalist organization (Knights of … Read More George S. Schuyler’s “Black No More” and Identity
+ african american literature, airtight willie and me, american literature, gothic literature, iceberg slim, lonely suite, nathaniel hawthorne, Uncategorized, william faulkner
Throughout Iceberg Slim’s literary career, he wrote to dissuade his readers away from the Life. As such, his stories of the urban ghettos of Chicago and the Midwest served as not just political critiques on an oppressive system but also as didactic narratives. Of course, some individuals misread these cues, as Slim himself writes about in “Rappin About the Pimp Game.” Today, I want … Read More Iceberg Slim’s “Lonely Suite” and the Gothic
+ african american literature, american literature, don share, donald trump, early american literature, election, election 2016, ernest j gaines, hillary clinton, jacqueline woodson, james baldwin, Literature, louisiana literature, phillis wheatley, plato, poetry magazine, ralph waldo emerson, Uncategorized
In the Republic, Plato famously claims that there is a longstanding quarrel between philosophy and poetry, even stating that poets are nothing more than imitators and cannot relate truth to their audience, thus perverting them: “the tragic poet is an imitator, and therefore, like all other imitators, he is thrice removed from the king and from the truth.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Nature (1836), … Read More Why We Teach: Literature and the Presidential Election
+ african american literature, american literature, angela laflen, caribbean literature, composition, early american literature, gothic literature, irish literature, Literature, louisiana literature, native american literature, Pedagogy, southern literature, tumblr, Uncategorized
Over the past few months, I have posted different pedagogical approaches that I have implemented in the classroom from the elevator pitch in the composition classroom to the use of archival materials in the literature classroom. Today, I want to take the moment and expand upon a couple of projects that I have used in the literature classroom.
If you enjoy what you read here at Interminable Rambling, think about making a contribution on our Patreon page. While some critics see Phillis Wheatley as a poet who does not address racism and slavery in her poetry, some, like Frances Smith Foster, read the poet as revising “traditional poetic forms and language to accommodate new messages” and to ultimately present her writing as … Read More Phillis Wheatley’s “To Maecenas” and Subversion
