Defining a Project
An Example: Fat Shaming
You could read or watch any combination of:
- Roxane Gay, Hunger
- Kiese Laymon, Heavy
- Lindy West, Shrill
- The Hulu series, Shrill, with Aidy Bryant
- Other writers and artists who discuss body size
- Reviews of any of these texts
- Interviews with any of the writers/artists
And you could also observe/listen to people talking about body size while at school, home, work, shopping, etc.
Crowdsourcing
What issues are you thinking of exploring? What texts will you look at?
Jamaica Kincaid, Natives and Tourists
The thing you have always suspected about yourself the minute you become a tourist is true: A tourist is an ugly human being.
Kincaid, p. 14
Fastwrite
In responding to Rebecca Solnit we talked a good bit about tone, about the worries that many of us had that her criticisms were too sweeping and severe. So what do you make of Jamaica Kinkaid’s angry tone here, of her willingness to accuse you, her reader, at least in those moments when you are a tourist, of being willing to turn the “banality and boredom” of others “into a source of pleasure for yourself” (19).
Of Interest
Some Thoughts From Jamaica Kincaid Collected on Lithub 2017)
To Do
- Tues, 10/08, 11:00 am: Group C posts responses to Roxane Gay. The rest of us read and respond to them by 11:00 pm.
- Wed, 10/09, class: Discuss Gay. Questions about project proposals.
- Thurs, 10/10, 11:00 pm: Email me your project proposal as a Word document. Title your document “First Name Last Initial Proposal”.
- Fri, 10/11: No Class. Fall Break.
- Mon, 10/14, and Wed, 10/16: No Class. Conferences with Joe about proposals.
- Thurs, 10/17, 4:00 pm: Post Project Reading to this site. We will discuss them the following week.
E367: Writing and Diversity 