I found Matsuda’s article on the division of labor in composition studies and ESL writing to be both informative and thought provoking. It was refreshing for me to read an article where the history of the discipline was laid out…
English 5001
Thoughts on Orientalism Reconsidered
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The Reading— Orientalism Reconsidered by Edward W. Said The Said reading was not my favorite one. My interest for Orientalism is waning. I thought this reading was going to be an account of rhetorical practices like the Xing Lu readings,…
English 5001
Binary in Spivak
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The reading—-Rhetoric and Cultural Explanation: A Discussion with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak In this interview of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, I found it interesting that Spivak does not give an exact definition of Rhetoric when asked. Rhetoric in our modern time is…
English 5870
Foucault
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Joel Manfredi Journal Entry “Panopticon” Dr. De Vries English 5870 In reading Michel Foucault’s “Panopticism,” I get a strong sense of the type of discipline that most teachers are looking for in their classrooms. It is, that…
English 5001
bell hooks, “Rebel’s Dilemma,” commentary
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In her short piece, “Rebel’s Dilemma,” bell hooks describes the balance between being an academic and a “rebel,” as she states the following: “Academia was where we worked but we wanted a life on the outside. We did not…
English 5001
Orientalism
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Edward Said presents some interesting notions on the idea of Orientalism, as both a concept and as a field of study. Said’s concepts are similar to some of the readings we have done earlier in that he explains the difficulties…