Here's the audio recording:
Sunday Q&A - 6/21
I've sent out an email with the information for our Sunday Q&A on 6/21 at 4pm. If you're planning on joining and haven't received it, just let me know. And if you can't make it, it will be recorded.
The overstory outside my window 5:45am:
Hello Everyone,
Here are links to related to our recent discussion on The Overstory including various references I made during our session. Hope you find them useful. More to follow over the weekend ...
Yves Bonnefoy, Poetry and Photography (about how photography relates to change and time)
https://amzn.to/30PgbqQ
Yggdrasil (the mythological World Tree)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil
The Peregrine by J.A. Baker (a masterpiece of writing about the natural world)
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-beauty-of-j-a-bakers-the-peregrine
https://amzn.to/37BemPH
The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich (a novel structured through linking stories of individual characters over time, including Windigo Dog)
https://amzn.to/2BgBnva
Homer (one of the most epic of all epic similes -- from the Iliad)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/2563
Just as is the generation of leaves, so also is that of men.
Some leaves the wind spills to the ground, but others the burgeoning wood grows anew, and the springtime comes again. Thus one generation of men grows, another passes away.
(Il. 6.146–49)
The Homecoming (the glass of water - at about 3 minutes into the clip)
https://youtu.be/nv4-XI1hD9o
Here's a link to the audio of our Sunday Q&A on 6/14:
Following are links to resources I mentioned during our class session:
How Esi Edugyan wrote her novel Washington Black
Here's a link to the audio of our Sunday Q&A, with a focus on the nature of protest art and literature. Below the recording are links to the articles I referenced.
Mohan, Narendra. “Protest and Literature.” Indian Literature, vol. 18, no. 1, 1975, pp. 92–95. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23333844. Accessed 8 June 2020.
Lauter, Paul. “Teaching Protest Literature.” The Radical Teacher, no. 79, 2007, pp. 8–12. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20710406. Accessed 8 June 2020.
Vis, Farida, et al. “When Twitter Got #Woke: Black Lives Matter, DeRay McKesson, Twitter, and the Appropriation of the Aesthetics of Protest.” The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication, edited by Aidan McGarry et al., Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2020, pp. 247–266. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvswx8bm.18. Accessed 8 June 2020.
I wasn't able to record our Zoom session, but I have compiled a list of authors we discussed, along with additions. You'll also find two links: one to an interesting article on LitHub about expanding the canon of Black writers, and links to the podcast I referenced during our session.
Chinua Achebe, Chiamanda Ngozi Adichie, Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jericho Brown, Octavia Butler, Edwidge Danticat, W.E.B Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Alex Haley, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Marlon James, Naguib Mahfouz, Toni Morrison, Helen Oyeyemi, Claudia Rankine, Tayeb Salih, Zadie Smith, Natasha Tretheway, Derek Walcott, Alice Walker, Jesmyn Ward, Colson Whitehead, John Edgar Wideman, Richard Wright
And consider this article posted at LitHub:
Toward an Expanded Canon of Black Literature
The panel discussion I mention from Stanford Humanities Center (first link is to the website, the second is to the same as a podcast):
https://shc.stanford.edu/multimedia/representations-race-and-ethnicity-art-and-literature
This Memorial Day Weekend, we considered the theme of memory in literature. Here are links to the recordings:
Here also are links to items referenced:
The Poet's Dictionary, William Packard