READ THIS: PRESENTATIONS

PRESENTATIONS: please take these seriously: they are an important part of your participation in the class. Your job when you present is to lead the discussion on the reading for that day. You may bring in some research, but most of all, you should be very well-prepared with insights, interpretations, and questions about the reading at hand. You may want to begin by summarizing the progress of the plot represented by the excerpt assigned on that day. Then you should have passages picked out for the class to discuss. You may want to be ready, also, with the posts for the day (you can copy and paste them and print them out). The purpose of the presentation is to give more responsibility to the classmembers and de-center the discussion a little bit (although I will still chime in). Here are your assignments, mostly random. 1. Wed. 3/30 Small Things, 84-147, Eidia. 2. 4/4 Small Things, 148-225, Hannah. 3. 4/6 Small Things, ending, Anna. 4. 4/11 Ondaatje, Dan. 5. 4/13 Mukherjee, Michael. 6. 4/18 Poppies, 3-87, Karol. 7. 4/20 Poppies, 88-156, Jason. 8. 4/25 Poppies, 157-226, Joe. 9. 4/27, Poppies, 227-342, Will. 10. 5/2 Poppies, 343-446, Rachel. 11. 5/4 Poppies, finish, Jane.

Sunday, January 30, 2011

1/31/11: Naipaul: Rachel

3.) Salim comes from a family of Muslim traders who moved to Africa, where they set up shop and became successful. (Yes? Yes, am I getting this right??) Salim is not ethnically African, just nationally.

To quote V.S. Naipaul's biography on the Nobel Prize site: "Born in Trinidad in 1932, the descendant of indentured labourers shipped from India, this dispossessed child of the Raj has come on a long and marvellous journey." They make it sound so inspiring...

9.) Being "nothing" = not incorporating YOURSELF into the idea of human history. Being "something" = a person like Father Huisman, who sees himself as part of a "historical river's flow"..he collects the relics of Africa to expand human knowledge. It's as though it were a big project he was helping complete.
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