ENGLISH 2000: Globalization and Literature (Perspectives in Literature, spring 2013)

Here are a few ideas on the veil by R.C. Young from his book Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, 2003).

1. A handout that I designed to spark discussion for Persepolis:   Globo-Veil-Young

2. Five images that are as interesting as they are confusing:  5Veil-Pics-Eng2000-2013

3. A fairly good Wikipedia entry on the veil:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil

4.  An academic book with a collection of essay on the veil: The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore, and Politics, edited by Jennifer Heath

Best,

Sean

Parts of a book:

History of the book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book

Book vs Computer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ

Globalization is  both fed by and constituted from the book and the computer!

Cheers,

Sean

Hi Class,

**Note: I found a copy of The White Tiger after class last Tuesday. No name inside. I will put it inside my mailbox in Namm 512.

Here are the promised summaries.

Emmanuel Levinas and the Other:

Other-Levinas-Scanlan-ENG2000-sp2013

Zygmunt Bauman and Liquid Modernity:

Liquid-Mod-Globalizn-Scanlan-ENG2000-sp2013

Here’s one of my favorite classical piece ever. And even more excited as a Ballroom dance Teacher to be able to dance to this. Hope you guys enjoy this unique piece.

Hi Class,

Homework for Tuesday, April 16: Read to page 95 in The White Tiger, then write Journal 3: Is Balram a hero or villain and why?

Feel free to post your favorite music as a comment or as a new post (you need to signed up on OpenLab to write your own post–there are directions for doing on the OpenLab homepage).

Coltan Resources:

Scholarly Articles:

Montague, Dena. “Stolen Goods: Coltan and Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.” SAIS Review 22:1 (2002): 103-118. This article can be found by going to our Library website and searching the database: Project Muse

Mapping Environmental Justice in Technology Flows: Computer Waste Impacts in Asia

Global Environmental Politics, Volume 4, Number 4, November 2004, pp. 76-107

by: Alastair T. Iles. This is also from Project Muse.

Youtube films:

1. In Focus: Congo’g Bloody Coltan    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OWj1ZGn4uM

2. The Real Mobile Phone Wars   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQIsLqkuATY

Can you appreciate a new art form in 17 minutes?

Benjamin Zander and the Power of Classical Music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9LCwI5iErE

Global Nostalgia and Global Homesickness:

Prof.  Sean Scanlan’s only power point presentation, ever:

Scanlan-Homesickness–CityTech

The Clash was an influential punk band in the 1970s and 80s. One of their songs was “Straight to Hell,” (1982)and we might consider it to be a postcolonial song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdUtborIaiU

M.I.A. released “Paper Planes” in 2007. What conversation is taking place between the two songs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewRjZoRtu0Y

What do you think? Music and globalization?

In case you were not a big fan of Styx, or in case you were not around in 1977:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TcztyNlFx0

Cheers,

Sean

Hi Class,

Great discussion today about economics and Ha Jin’s short story.

Here’s a link to the film “Today”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYX2vboa7KM

Homework for next week:

Steger: Chapter 4

Teju Cole’s Open City: up to page 59.

Cheers,

Sean

Hi Class,

1. I’ve posted the reading “Stage Mothers” under the Readings menu tab. Please print it out, read it, and bring it to class for Tuesday.

2. Read Chapter 3 in Steger.

3. Read “A Short Play About Globalization” by Dominic Orlando

4. Prepare for Quiz 1 by reviewing Steger and these three terms: Globalization, Global Imaginary, and Transnational.

At the end of class yesterday I was not able to articulate my ideas on Transnational/Transnationalism very well. Here is another attempt:

The transnational person passes over and across national and international borders, yet nations and regions also leave traces on the person. The transnational person bumps over, goes around, and passes through many natural and human-made borders which come loaded with institutions, socio-economics, politics, and feelings, all of which infuse the person with multiple connections and multiple fractures, resulting in a person who is transformed by border crossing and also transforms the border itself.

 

Best,

Prof. Scanlan