Thursday 5/14 H page 79-105 Please also be prepared to discuss the Nobel Prize speech on this day. Bring this speech, annotated, to class.
Monday 5/18 B page 106-137 Be prepared to discuss “War and Peace: Transfigured Categories and the Politics of Sula.”
Wednesday 5/20 D 138-end of book (page 174)
Friday 5/22 F wrap up, finish discussion of needed chapters Be able to discuss the article: 'Sula': a Satire on Binary Thinking, by Rita A. Bergenholtz
Wednesday 5/27 H Essay work
Friday 5/29 B Essay DUE
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Outside Critical Articles that we will read in this class: 1. Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize Speech http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1993/morrison-lecture.html
2. War and Peace: Transfigured Categories and the Politics of 'Sula. Patricia Hunt - author. Journal Title: African American Review. Volume: 27. Issue: 3. Publication Year: 1993. Page Number: 443+. http://www.geocities.com/tarbaby2007/sula1.html
3. Toni Morrison's 'Sula': a Satire on Binary Thinking, by Rita A. Bergenholtz http://www.geocities.com/tarbaby2007/sula3.html
4. Revolutionary Suicide in Toni Morrison's Fiction African American Review , Fall, 2000 by Katy Ryan http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2838/is_3_34/ai_67413396/
Pairing of Opposites and Inversion in Sula
Below are places in the novel where inversions of language and power occur. We also list places where opposites are paired.
-Bottom is on top of a hill
-National Suicide Day becomes a part of life
-Eva- people really look down at her but think they are looking up. She reigns over people even though she is so physically small.
Which was your favorite work we studied?
Chapter by chapter analysis
Read Vanessa and Harsha's posts on the nightly reading
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