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| Recommended Readings from Dr. Scott Pollard |
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Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath her Feet
This is a post-colonial rock and roll romance that develops in an
alternative timeline wher John F. Kennedy does not die in office, his
brother Robert becomes president, Richard Nixon does not become
president, Watergate is just a movie, and the British fight in
Indochina. more >>> |
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Bob Gilmore, Harry Partch: A Biography
I am a fan of modern classical mus
ic, and I was very happy to find
this book in a used bookstore. Harry Partch is part of a generation of
American composers-including John Cage, Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison and
Conlon Nancarrow-to pursue a break with European classical music in
order to realize alternative musical idioms. more >>> |
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Daniel Wilkinson, Silence on the Mountain: Studies of Terror, Betrayal and Forgetting in Guatemala
In the early 1990s, Daniel Wilkinsin went to Guatemala on a travel
grant and became interested in the burning the manor house of a rural
plantation, La Patria. La casa patronal was burned down by guerilla
forces fighting against the Guatemalan government's long-standing
genocidal oppression of Guatemala's Indian populations, part of a
decades old civil war that was not resolved until the 1990s. more >>> |
| Recommended Readings from Dr. Mary Wright |
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I recommend Toni Morrison's debut novel, The Bluest Eye as an important literary experience for any English student. She hits
her readers with the terrible effects of racism at a fundamentally
emotional level, how prejudice affects our nation's children. In
exploring the litany of cultural icons that explicitly support and
perpetuate racism, Morrison examines how long-reaching the nation's
racial education has traveled, from the Dick and Jane Primer generations learned how to read by to films and children's play toys. |
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To develop an understanding of the complexities of gender theory, look to Judith Butler's Gender Trouble as a cornerstone text in your educational experience. Butler
problematizes the slippages of gender roles and the essentialist
arguments that the French feminists constructed; she is most widely
known for positioning gender identity as a performance act. Though her
prose is dense, comprehending Gender Trouble will provide an edge in any graduate school theory course. |
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