Notes for 2 February 2016
LITCS 114
Teaching Associate: Patrick Mooney
Bldg. 494, room 160B
Winter 2016
- Administrative questions/issues?
- Where are we in relation to the course material now? What questions do you have?
- How is the Foucault treating you? How is your immersion in theory going?
- Remember what I said at the beginning of the quarter: gender is not generally taken to be a central component of biopolitical thinking in the way that race is. How does this strike you as an approach?
- The Member of the Wedding...
- What kinds of problems does Frankie have? What are the difficulties involved in her life that drive the plot? What about her desires?
- To what extent do we take Frankie to be a sympathetic character?
- How does she understand her own identity?
- How is this related to her understandings of ...
- sex and sexuality?
- authority (e.g.,
the Law
)?
- How does this change throughout the novel as she adjusts to adulthood?
- How does she understand gender roles?
- Taking the notion of power that we've been developing? Where is the power in this novel? Who gets to make power/knowledge decisions?
- Who's in charge of truth and other definitional decisions of this type? How does Frankie engage with these definitions? How do they disadvantage her?
- Today's whiteboard snapshots