Notes for 10 March 2016

LITCS 114
Teaching Associate: Patrick Mooney
Bldg. 494, room 160B
Winter 2016

• Administrative matters
  • Thank you, thank you, thank you. You've all been so wonderful this quarter. I appreciate your hard work, your engagement, and your excellent writing.
  • Final projects, etc.
• Wrapping up Beloved...
  • What happens at the end of the novel? What do you notice about it?
  • Looking at Denver's, Sethe's, and Beloved's monologues about Beloved ...
    • Who is Beloved for?
    • What has happened in the previous chapter?
      • Again, note that each section begins with a declaration about the house.
    • Who is Beloved? What different answers does the novel authorize, and in what ways?
    • Who's speaking in the last chapter? What can we say about the narrative voice there?
  • What other traumas does the book encode? What does the book have to say about what it means to be female? What are the conditions of existence that women experience differentially in this novel?
• Wrapping up the quarter...
  • What have we not talked about this quarter? What other conversations could we have had based on these texts that we didn't get around to having?
  • How did the course work for you?
    • How was the theory emphasis?
    • What did you think about the literary texts? How were they, as choices? What else would you rather have read?
    • How was the blogging?
    • What would you have me do differently next time I teach this class?