Section outline

  • Tu: To focus our discussion on issues raised by the strike, read an article about Virginia Woolf wearing blackface, available here:

    https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-time-virginia-woolf-wore-blackface

    In class, we will watch 2 videos about Kara Walker's anti-racist art.  I have also created a new forum for general comments in reaction to issues raised by the strike.  Feel free to post any thoughts at all about the college, the strike, the course, or anything else that is on your mind. To get to the forum, just click HERE. 

                                                                                                                                

    Fri: Finish reading the The Waves.  I understand that the strike may continue so it may be difficult to do this long reading assignment, so I am suggesting three ways to read the rest of the book skipping certain passages.

    1. Read the rest of the novel.  We left off at p. 182, the interlude beginning "The sun had now sunk lower in the sky."  and the book goes on to p. 297.  This is in my edition 115 pages.

    1. Skip the first section beyond what we had read.  In other words, start on p. 207, an interlude beginning "The sun was sinking. The hard stone of the day was cracked..." and keep reading up to the end of the book.  This would be 90 pages   

    2. Start on p. 207, an interlude beginning "The sun was sinking. The hard stone of the day was cracked..." and read through to p. 246, to just before a paragraph beginning, "Thus, not equally by any means or with order, but in great streaks..." Then skip to p. 279, to a paragraph beginning"Was this, then, this streaming away mixed with Susan, Jinny, Nevillle, Rhoda, Louis, a sort of death."  and read to the end of the book.  This would be 67 pages. 


    I respect whatever decision you make, even if it means not attending class Friday altogethr. 

    --Michael