Category: colonization
+ a muslim american slave: the life of omar ibn said, ala alryyes, american colonization society, colonization, Muslim, omar ibn said, slave narrative, slavery
Resistance in Omar ibn Said’s Narrative
In every class, I choose to teach a few new texts that I have never read. Sometimes this will include one texts. Other times it will include more. For this semester, in my multicultural American literature course, I chose two new texts that I had never read before: Hala Alyan’s Salt Houses and Omar ibn Said’s 1831 narrative. I plan to write about each … Read More Resistance in Omar ibn Said’s Narrative
+ american literature, colonization, f. scott fitzgerald, john cheever, nick carraway, pilgrims, puritan, suburbia, the great gatsby, the swimmer
Exploration and Colonization in John Cheever’s “The Swimmer”
At the end of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925), Nick Carraway goes over to Gatsby’s dark, empty house then heads down to the beach where he sprawls out on the sand and begins to think about the past, the time before he or Gatsby or Tom and Daisy or anyone else built enormous structures on East Egg and West Egg. He becomes … Read More Exploration and Colonization in John Cheever’s “The Swimmer”
