21L.705 Toni Morrison and Herman Melville, Talking About America (Major Authors)
Fall 2016
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Toni Morrison in her New York apartment, from The
Guardian.
Instructor: Wyn Kelley
Lecture: MW9.30-11 (5-232)
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Announcements
Final Essays and Notebooks
Dear All--Your papers now await you in the box outside my
office door (except for those to whom I have sent their work in a
SASE). Do come and get them! And do enjoy your well-deserved break.
Happy holiday wishes to you! Best, WK
Announced on 19 December 2016 5:13 p.m. by Wyn Kelley
Supplementary Readings, October 17-19
The Stuckey and Blum readings for this week are now in Stellar
Materials.
Announced on 17 October 2016 3:33 p.m. by Wyn Kelley
New Review of Greg Grandin, EMPIRE OF NECESSITY
For anyone interested in "Benito Cereno" or thinking
about the persistence of slavery past emancipation, this review, by
Maya Jasonoff in the New York Review of Books, is thorough and
useful:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/10/13/slavery-great-trap-for-all-americans/.
Announced on 03 October 2016 8:20 a.m. by Wyn Kelley
Greg Grandin Materials at Stellar
You will find the sections of Greg Grandin's THE EMPIRE OF
NECESSITY at the Materials section of the Stellar site. Please also
note the link on the home page to Grandin's New York Times
editorial of January 2014, "Obama, Melville, and the Tea
Party,"in which he connects Obama's presidency and
Melville's "Benito Cereno." Do read the Melville
first before checking out the supplementary readings--in this case
there will be spoilers!
Announced on 20 September 2016 7:57 a.m. by Wyn Kelley
"Recitatif"
You will find a copy of Toni Morrison's story,
"Recitatif," in the Materials section at Stellar.
Announced on 15 September 2016 11:38 a.m. by Wyn Kelley
