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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I love Beloved, but I can understand why someone wouldn't. It's got some parts that are just hard. And it's not easy to teach, either. What about the one about Milkman? What's it called? Song of Solomon.
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a good one. It'd teach well, too.
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a good one. It'd teach well, too.It does teach very well, especially to seniors. And yes, I think Song of Solomon is amazing, too.
Jilli, what Carter short story would you teach if you were me?
I can't remember the title off the top of my head, but it's something like The Lady at the House of Love. I'll look through my Carter collection (after I'm done watching SPN).
It also occurs to me I have no African-American writers.
hey, how about Tyler Perry? Just kidding.
The Master and Margarita? The Island of Dr. Moreau? The Confidence Man? (I think The Confidence Man should be taught more often, and certainly dealing a man who may or may not be the devil puts it into the realm of magical realism.
You could do the grotesque/there are things man was not meant to know section with short stories. Welty plus Poe, Bradbury, Bierce, and the jittery extreme of Lovecraft. MFK Fisher's The Lost, the Strayed, the Stolen. You could even throw in some classic SF movies, in which science is evil and the good guy gets the girl.
Would one of August Wilson's plays work? They're often about love, in various guises.
Kat, the Angela Carter stories I was thinking of were "The Lady in the House of Love" and "Wolf-Alice".
Kristin, if my student's account of the subways in Tokyo is any indication, that's no hoax.
He HATED taking the trains.
Ooh, for grotesque you could teach Anne Sexton's Transformations. I read that volume over and over again when I was a girl.
Geek Love would be great for grotesque.
Angela Carter: I'd say Magic Toyshop or Nights at the Circus. (Though personally I love The Passion of New Eve, but I don't think that'll fly in your class.)
I'd like a contemporary US playwright who wrote a comedy, juliana.
Beth Henley! C'mon, "Miss Firecracker"
Magic Realism: "Shoeless Joe" by W.P. Kinsella is really one of the few American runs at Magic Realism that's any good. Michael Chabon kind of trends that way though.
Colin Firth and Jon Stewart's conversation on The Daily Show: Comedy Gold.
Simon, Henley, and Durang are all good contemporary choices. George F. Walker is an awesome current Canadian playwright, chock-full of dark humor.