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A Living Archive of the Self: Or, the Autotheory of Saidiya Hartman
Get PDFFollowing the publication and reception of Maggie Nelson’s 2015 The Argonauts, “autotheory” has emerged as a distinctly 21st century literary and critical genre. In blending the conventions of autobiography and critical theory, autotheoretical texts like The Argonauts or Claudia Rankine’s Citizen have been analyzed for their formal experiments with imagining the self as pluralistic and reappropriating critical theory outside of the walls of academia.
In my paper today, I want to consider the role of autotheory within the field of Black studies. In particular, I look at how the autotheoretical work of Saidiya Hartman represents a distinctive break with the genre’s current focus on the plurality of the self or reappropriation of critical theory. In Lose Your Mother, Hartman reflects on her experiences abroad in Africa in order to express how her own family history is indelibly marked by the “afterlife” of slavery. Unsettling preconceived notions of “archive” and “history,” Hartman approaches her autobiographical self as a living archive of slavery. If autotheory has been aptly described as an “art of the present,” autotheory provides for Hartman a medium for creating a “history of the present.
Overwhelming Affects: Reading Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 in the Digital Era, MLA Conference Paper 2023, Panel 747
No full textIn Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, Smith utilizes her own black female body to give voice to the diverse experiences of those who witnessed the Los Angeles Uprising. The voices we hear from Smith are not her own, instead these voices are merely different perspectives about the same event. Smith’s one-woman performance provides a model for how contemporary subjects quickly feel overwhelmed by numerous, sometimes conflicting or inaccurate media representations of crowds and unrest in the digital era. Her work foreshadows how current events are witnessed on social media today. In this paper, I argue that the multiplicity of voices heard in Twilight mimics the way that various points of view are widely dispersed, even fractured, throughout traditional media, as well as, social media such as Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. From this vantage point, I turn to recent accounts of black crowds such as those in Minneapolis, New York and Los Angeles in 2020. Ultimately, I argue that images of crowds, urban unrest, and social injustice in African American cultural products, like Smith’s Twilight, shed light on how contemporary individuals consume news and media in the digital era
Supplement to the Historiography I:17
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Religious Studies 726 Topics in Chinese Religions: Death, Funerals, Burial in Chinese Religions McMaster University, Term II 2022–23
Get PDFSyllabus for graduate seminar at McMaster University. In this seminar we will examine practices surrounding death in a variety of Chinese religions. We will explore the various understandings of the death process, preparation for death, and the afterlife. We will look at the post-mortem treatment of the body, changing funerary practices and different modes for the burial of the body along with other methods of disposing of the dead. The course will focus primarily, but not exclusively, on the medieval period.
All readings for this seminar are in English
Alain Badiou: Nietzsche's Anti-Philosophy Seminar I, 1992-1993, Translated by Wanyoung Kim
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No full textSe realizo un ensayo sobre el tema : Evaluación del impacto en la utilización del libro de curso en el rendimiento académico estudiantil de la materia de cálculo integral, carrera de Ingeniería Agronómica. Universidad Central del Ecuador, respondiendo también a una pegunta ¿Cómo usar un libro de texto en la Carrera de Agronomía
Enfoques de aprendizaje y rendimiento académico en estudiantes de agronomía; periodo marzo 2105-febrero 2017
No full textEn este documento se determina y se explica el tipo de enfoque de aprendizaje que suele ser utilizado por un estudiante, tomando en cuenta cada diferencias de estos enfoques y con las motivaciones que estas directamente relacionados con los mismos
Making Camden History: local history and untold stories in a small community
Get PDFThe Camden township is located 65 kilometres southwest of the Sydney CBD and, in recent years, has been absorbed by Sydney's urban growth. The main streets are a mix of Victorian, Edwardian and interwar architecture comprising commercial, government and domestic buildings. The town site was originally the entry point into what became Governor King's Cowpasture Reserve at the Nepean River crossing, part of the lands of the Dharawal people, which then called Benkennie. Jill Wheeler argues that while local histories are embedded in a long storytelling tradition, new understandings inform our interpretation in a contemporary context. This article seeks to examine some of what Wheeler calls 'the other' by looking beyond the conventional history of Camden as found in newspapers, journals, monuments, celebrations, commemorations and other places. It explores how Camden's history-making has been constructed and represented over time