L3 - Literature, Theory and Practice

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  Semester 2 Syllabus

  1- Twentieth Century Poetry
  1.1 Modernist Poetry: T.S Eliot's "Game of Chess" from The Waste Land
  1.2 World War Poetry: W. B. Yeats' "The Second Coming"
  2. Twentieht Century African American Poetry
  2.1 Richard B. Wright "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow, an Autobiogrphical
  Sketch"
  2.2 Integrationists: James Baldwin "Autobiographical Notes"
• Select topic Twentieth Century Poetry: Modernist Poetry: T.S Eliot's "Game of Chess" from The Waste Land

  Twentieth Century Poetry: Modernist Poetry: T.S Eliot's "Game of Chess" from The Waste Land
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  World War Poetry: W. B. Yeats' "The Second Coming"
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  Twentieth Century African American Literature

  • Course: Literature: Theory and Practice
  • Title:  The Ethics of Living Jim Crow, Autobiographical Sketch by Richard Wright
  • Duration: 1H15
  • Timing: 14:30-15h45
  • Class: FAD 3
  • Course Objectives: Introduction to the writing of Richard Wright and analysis of his autobiography. This introductory course aims at familiarizing the learner with Wright's autobiographical sketch and pushing the learner to reflect on autobiography. The second ai mis the study and understanding of the African American experience as well as extraction of the writing style and principles from the text by the learner directly without the assistance of the teacher.
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  • Part One: from 14:30 to 15:15
  • Step one: Very short overview of African American Literature
  • Step 2: Discovery of the text by Richard Wright
  • Step 3: Approaching the text as an autobiography
  • Step 4: Reflecting on the events and affects
  • Step 5: Extracting elements from the text/
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    This lecture goes through different steps. The first step begins at 14:30 in which you have to read the overview of African American literature below. This task should be completed within 10 minutes. 

    Step 2: Use 10 minutes to read the summary of the essay in this link Wright's Autobiographical Essay

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    Exceprt 1:

    I was outraged, and bawled. Between sobs I told her that I didn't have any trees or hedges to hide behind. There wasn't a thing I could have used as a trench. And you couldn't throw very far when you were hiding behind the brick pillars of a house. She grabbed a barrel stave, dragged me home, stripped me naked, and beat me till I had a fever of one hundred and two. She would smack my rump with the stave, and, while the skin was still smarting, impart to me gems of Jim Crow wisdom. I was never to throw cinders any more. I was never to fight any more wars. I was never, never, under any conditions, to fight white folks again. And they were absolutely right in clouting me with the broken milk bottle. Didn't I know she was working hard every day in the hot kitchens of the white folks to make money to take care of me? When was I ever going to learn to be a good boy? She couldn't be bothered with my fights. She finished by telling me that I ought to be thankful to God as long as I lived that they didn't kill me.

    38All that night I was delirious and could not sleep. Each time I closed my eyes I saw monstrous white faces suspended from the ceiling, leering at me. 

    Question 1: Comment on the child's psychological condition after his incident

    Question 2: What do you think of the mother's reaction to Richard? Why should Richard be cautious?

    
    

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    Here my Jim Crow education assumed quite a different form. It was no longer brutally cruel, but subtly cruel. Here I learned to lie, to steal, to dissemble. I learned to play that dual role which every Negro must play if he wants to eat and live.

    Question: What is the impact of Jim Crow Law on Richard? What is the lesson that Richard is learning through these incidents?

    
    

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    The factory force of the optical company in Memphis was much larger than that in Jackson, and more urbanized. At least they liked to talk, and would engage the Negro help in conversation whenever possible. By this means I found that many subjects were taboo from the white man's point of view. Among the topics they did not like to discuss with Negroes were the following: American white women; the Ku Klux Klan; France, and how Negro soldiers fared while there; French women; Jack Johnson; the entire northern part of the United States; the Civil War; Abraham Lincoln; U. S. Grant; General Sherman; Catholics; the Pope; Jews; the Republican Party; slavery; social equality; Communism; Socialism; the 13th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution; or any topic calling for positive knowledge or manly self-assertion on the part of the Negro. The most accepted topics were sex and religion.

    Question: Richard now has a better understanding of his condition, in what terms would you describe his condition in his environment?

    Question: Taboo subjects that must not be discussed between whites and blacks have a few elements in common, can you explain them? And why in your opinion are these subjects "tabooed"?

    
    

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    The end of Part One. 

    Part Two begins at 15:15 - Return to  the video discussion on TEAMS following this link: Meeting

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