In Progress

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 Migration to the North, Tayib Saleh
The Hunger Games, Sue Collins
Kiss of the Spider Woman, Manuel Puig
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
“A Raisin in the Sun,” Langston Hughes
“New Boy,” Roddy Doyle
“The Siege,” James Lasdun
“The Second Coming,” William Butler Yeats

Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle dir.
La Haine, Mathieu Kassovitz dir.
A Raisin in the Sun, Daniel Petrie dir.
Besieged, Bernardo Bertolucci dir.
The Talented Mr. Ripley, Anthony Minghella dir.
New Boy, Steph Green dir.

various, U2
various, M.I.A.
various, Fela Kuti
various, Justice
various, IAM
various, Lady Gaga
various, Madonna
various, Cyndi Lauper
various, David Bowie
various, Tricky

excerpts, The Aesthetics of Resistance, Peter Weiss
The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus
excerpts, Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
Speeches and writings from Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
excerpts, Subculture, The Meaning of Style Dick Hebdige
excerpts, Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain, Stuart Hall
excerpts, The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon
excerpts, The Location of Culture, Homi K. Bhabha
“Can the Subaltern Speak?” Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
excerpts, Antonio Gramsci
excerpts, Michel Foucault
excerpts, Edward W. Said
excerpts, The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
excerpts, Sound and Vision: the music video reader by Simon Frith, Andrew Goodwin, Lawrence Grossberg

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