The assignment from the instructor:
Reseach Paper (or a well written argument or a deep dive). Anywhere from 10-25 pages in length but 15 is good. Analyze one or two pieces of text and find the similarities or differences. This is NOT a summary of the articles.
At the end of the piece, have an argument about the article. This argument needs to be backed up with quotes from the text. An exploratory (epiphany) can be at the end where you wonder about things the author has said. Third person. I will upload a few articles that we have read to choose from. I found interest in “Fact of Blackness”.
*Cixous, from ‘Sorties’ (5.2 in Easthope and McGowan)
Butler, from Gender Trouble (separate PDF)
*Freud, On the Universal Tendency towards Debasement in Love (5.1 in Easthope and McGowan)
*Marx, from ‘Preface to the Critique’ (2.1 in Easthope and McGowan)
*Marx and Engels, from The German Ideology (2.2 in Easthope and McGowan)
*Althusser, from ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses’ (2.3 in Easthope and McGowan)
*Edward Said, from Orientalism (2.4 in Easthope and McGowan)
Homi Bhabha, “The Other Question” (separate PDF)
Spivak, “Can the subaltern speak?” (separate PDF)
“The Fact of Blackness” from Black Skin/White Masks (separate PDF)
[heads-up: liberal use of racial slurs by Francophone Afro-Caribbean author, as illustrative examples]
*Lyotard, from The Postmodern Condition (6.1 in Easthope and McGowan)
*Baudrillard, from Simulations (6.3 in Easthope and McGowan)
Zizek, from The Sublime Object of Ideology (separate PDF)
