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Dithyrambic · #11 10-22-2009, 04:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Amity

I got put right off post-colonialism after two lectures on it in my Modern European Culture class last year. It might have been that the class was rushed and didn't give us time for the material to sink in properly before we were onto the next topic, but I just didn't feel it.

No, no, it's not you or the subject being rushed.
It's a terrible topic.
And considering I am in two classes on it right now (taken concurrently as part of a "Learning Community" on the subject) I really could scream.
One more week .

This has been a terrible term I have to say.
I haven't tried at all and I don't even care.
I really need to graduate.

Dithyrambic · #12 10-22-2009, 04:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Insomnia

I quite enjoyed Cry the Beloved Country, but I could not get along with Things Fall Apart. It just seemed to be "farm some yams, beat some women, farm some yams, beat some women". Didn't even manage to finish it even though its ridiculously short. I didn't even get as far as Things Falling Apart in it. I imagine something might have gone wrong with the yams since beating women seemed to be an endless pastime.

I did not finish it either because it was boring as hell .
I also did not get as far as things actually falling apart
but I made it further than I did through Arrow of God and Cry the Beloved Country combined.

cricket · #13 10-22-2009, 05:49 AM

i didn't hate things fall apart. but my professor was pretty into it and sometimes that can go a long way for a book i would otherwise fall asleep reading.

we also read season of migration to the north, which i thought was pretty cool. and a story collection by bessie head which was depressing but i liked it.

but the class wasn't "post-colonial lit" exactly. it was "lit & empire" so we also read the good ole heart of darkness. and achebe's article where he was all pissed the fuck off at conrad for not properly representing africans and i was kinda like "ummm i don't think he was trying to dude?" that was the title of my paper. Ummm I Don't Think He Was Trying To, Dude? and THEN we watched apocalypse now. i always liked movie day at college.

AND we watched mutiny on the bounty (the clark gable/charles laughton one) after reading byron's "the island."

we also watched whale rider, but i think that was just like "here it's almost spring break let's watch something instead of sit in a circle and talk shit."

bort · #14 10-22-2009, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Dithyrambic

He was SHOCKED SHOCKED when no one in the class knew the name of the first woman in space (????????)

He loves to share knowledge.

Valentina Tereshkova! That won me a quiz once. I wish I was there so I could make him say "well at least once person is worth not gassing".

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Originally Posted by Amity

I got put right off post-colonialism after two lectures on it in my Modern European Culture class last year. It might have been that the class was rushed and didn't give us time for the material to sink in properly before we were onto the next topic, but I just didn't feel it.

I don't mind all that subaltern theory stuff, but it has to be done right. Whatever that means. Because I've had courses where I was really turned on by all that postcolonial hoo-hah, and some where I was really turned off.

Insomnia · #15 10-24-2009, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by cricket

but the class wasn't "post-colonial lit" exactly. it was "lit & empire" so we also read the good ole heart of darkness.

Did you get to read Midnight's Children? Cause that is very much lit and the empire...