Notes

Bessie Head, “Life” and the “Collector of Treasures”
who is in the center of the story?—Rural african women are at the center
by displacing the male subject and focusing on the experiences of rural african women in the margins, bessie is able to allow us to come to a better and more critical understadning of how power works and how gender politics informs society.
her husband embodies and alternative depiction of freedom and independence
by centering her story amongst the lives of rural african women ,she displaces the conventional subject with people in the margins.
how else is this text feminist?—gives voice to erased womens stories

5 minutes freewrite about what you see
size of cells, where faces and relations come into view

the mothers facial expressions in the comic look frustrated and defeated. It appears that shes tired of submitting to Garesego but she still bliges for the sake of her son. We can see this as she looks sad as she serves Garesego while he has a smile on his face. She is also portaryed as hard working as she tends to garesgo. As she is on her Knees to serve Garesego it portarys her as submitting to himon the othe

for the mideterm, demonstrate and get us there,
flipping of the cell towars the bottom.

MIDTERM NOTES: DUE SUNDAY APRIL 10TH
-only talking about the texts in class.
-choose 3, write a response for each. You can do the 4th for extra credit, cannot exceed more than 1 page.
-completed exam cannot exceed 6 pages. 7 including EC

Prompt 1: Focuses on colonial discourse. the definition inside of prompt- the system of signs and practices that establish and reproduce colonial relationships.
how does he break with this image of africa as the foil to western modernity. How do you see him ressiitng the image of africa that comes out of colonial discourse?— use of story telling, the role of colonial contact and where it appears in the text. identify in the passage where you see him confronting colonial discourse.

Prompt 2: select one character, and demonstarte how the exemplify/ embody help to convey the staus of the post colonial subject (person). Also talk about how the violence inside of the text, informs their sense of belonging or not belonging.

Prompt 3: Take ndebeles idea of the ordinary and apply it to bessie heads graphic adaptiation to discuss the feminist critique that it stages. Touch upon the visual adaptation of the illustration .

Prompt 4: Two short stories, theres an explicit question around madness. lunacy is used as a theme. borders are also a main focus—partition. using a theme of lunacy to interrogate nationalism. However bessie head is interested nationalism from the perspective of absurity but theres something very specific about the use of her word—hysteria. Narrative assumptions of progress—the when of postcolonial, there are these assumtpions that the end of colonization equates to freedom, and liberation, and independence. we assume that itll move toward a progresive horizon however, in the short stories we get something different, a reordering of sciety, drawing of boundaries, differences.

find one passage in each short story hwere u focus on the use of lunacy and compare and contrast how they both use that.

the narrative assumptions about progress. FOcus on life and mantos text only.

***use textual evidence, dont use any text outside of class.**