Dream Syllabus

I’m not sure why, but I just created the syllabus for a class I just made up called “Intertextual Representations of Resistance and Difference across Global Media.” Of course it could be better, but I’d love to teach it! Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangaremba White Teeth, Zadie Smith The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman Season of [...]

Posted on December 29th, 2009 by DeepthiW
Filed under: Global Culture, Media, School, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

No Easy Answers: M.I.A. and the Politics of Pop

It has been argued that M.I.A., the London-born Sri Lankan Tamil rapper, should not have to explain why her art contains references to the internationally known terrorist organization familiarly known as the Tamil Tigers. But in a recent interview, M.I.A. called the civil war in Sri Lanka a genocide and compared its history of ethnic [...]

Posted on December 22nd, 2009 by DeepthiW
Filed under: Art, Global Culture, Media, Music, Politics, School, Uncategorized | 6 Comments »

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