ENG 110- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 86 pages long!)
6 Oct 2017
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Literatures across borders: crossing the border, comparative, national model. Responsibility- how are you telling a story, telling it right. Transgressive - crossing boarders, crossing lines/going too far. Fiction: lie that tells the truth - racism. Writing a love poem about a human. Shakespeare talking back to the idea of love. Love may be ecstatic, also painful and a torment. How to bring language, music (jazz) to literature. One of the most significant american writers of the 20th century . One of the foremost interpreters of racial relationships in the us . Harlem renaissance (supposed to be white neighbourhood, became black) Harlem, 1920: the new negro has no fear . Travels to the ussr in the 1930s. Works on a film about being black in america. Gets sent home, need to stop making propaganda films though. Good-morning, revolution: you"re the very best friend i ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
