Dear Students,
Thank you for your participation in today’s class and for your active engagement with the topics of the course. Your contributions and perspectives helped create an involving atmosphere, gradually transforming our classes into a true lab for critical thinking.
Optional assignment
To continue this activity, please consider one of the newspaper articles included in the PDF uploaded in the Lesson #1 section and respond to the following question:
"How does the process of 'othering' relate to the topic, or to the way the topic is presented in the article?"
Please provide an answer of up to 200 words, grounding your reflections with specific references from the article. You can share your thoughts by simply replying to this message (on the course eLearning page forum.)
Assigned readings
Additionally, please read the assigned texts for Lesson #2:
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s "Can the Subaltern Speak?" (1988), pp. 76-86. (A link to this essay is available on the main course page in eLearning for free access.)
From English Literature in Context by Paul Poplawski, Cambridge University Press (2017):
- pp. 479-496 (The Twentieth Century, 1901-1939: Historical context)
- pp. 512-519 (The Position of Women)
Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday.
Best regards,
SR