For all of you over-achievers in class that are pulling together insanely awesome project/paper ideas, thanks a lot. I was feeling beyond insecure regarding my topic already and couldn't come up with a polished argument and then I made the mistake of perusing some blogs to get some inspiration and I felt like I got punched in the face. Video projects, Nietzche, and Fried Chicken are seriously brilliant ideas and I really don't want to post this blog, hence the massive delay. But here goes:
I'm writing about Sex! Yay! It is a common theme throughout every text we've studied, except the required readings in Ha Jin which I have yet to finish. As a wise instructor once said "Sex sells." Perhaps this topic will be enough to hold my own with all of the brainiacs in class. We'll see.
I'm planning on arguing that the sexual relationships between some of the characters is a small scale representation/metaphor for the outcome of a post-colonial world and the negative effects it has on the sub-missives. I was going to concentrate with our Caribbean texts and discuss my thoughts regarding Rochester/Antoinette and Ralph/Chubby nameless prostitute.
And that's what I'm writing about.
My final works cited list is probably going to be a little ridiculous and much too long. As of now I have no books that link sex with post-colonialism (feel free to suggest anything) but for now I've found interesting literature regarding globalization and since my little brain is just getting to understand the whole concept I figured I could use all the supplemental publications that I could find to help support my argument.
Moisi, Domique. Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are Reshaping the World. New York. Doubleday, 2009
Moisi's argues that the emotional impact of globalization is just as important as geopolitics and that hope is the best response to the challenges we face in our world. Chapters 2-4 will be particularly helpful in my argument as they discuss the cultures of hope, humiliation, and fear.
Stiglitz, Joseph. Making Globalization Work. New York. Norton, 2006
Stiglitz states that in a continuing developing world we need to change the way we think. He examines the "change that has occurred" and "makes a compelling case that treating developing countries more fairly is not only morally right but is ultimately to the advantage of the developed world too." Several segments of this book will contribute to my conclusion.
Mailer, Norman & John Buffalo. The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America. New York. Nation Books, 2006
I admit that this book might be a little self-indulgent but I'm sure that the dialogues and "meditations on history, culture and politics" will definitely be pertinent to my topic. The segment on Courage, Morality, and Sexual Pleasure will be found as intriguing and helpful.
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The argument is fine (it's an argument), but your sources are significant overkill for a short paper of this type. You already have two primary texts with situations that you have to contextualize, summarize, and connect to the overarching argument. That overarching argument comes from you, supplemented by others. Those others can include the definition/foundational material we've read, plus appropriate secondary texts in the WSS Norton and those found through research in the MLA bibliography for Naipaul or PoCo in general (that can applied). What you have listed here are three texts that are either about globalization, the future, and/or America. Those three things do not fit with your argument, which is specifically tied in time and place to early c19 or mid c20 Carribbean. You're already jumping a hundred years (although that's mitigated by Rhys writing WSS quasi-contemporary to Naipaul) -- you can't jump even more and make claims that lead to globalization.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, for this project you should forget the word globalization entirely, because it is not part of the argument.
hells yeah!!! you had me hooked from the moment your blog mentioned the chubby nameless prostitute, so woohoo!!! hahaha.
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