1. Sacco ignores the fact that the subject of his work is people, instead treating them as an exhibit that he has nobly chosen to observe.
2. Sacco only wishes to document conflict and the pain of those who suffer and not to understand their story. 3. Sacco does not shy away from revealing his own ambiguities as a visiting western journalist. He depicts his own initial disbelief of reported detentions and torture. Therefore, he is able to make no pretense of the realities of life in Palestine and its people. 4. Sacco believes that traditional journalism - photographs of violence and newspaper articles - is an inadequate way to represent the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 5. Sacco's use of caricature (the exaggerated facial features of angry individuals) insults and dehumanizes his subjects.
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As you revise, recall the key tenets of your reading:
(10 minutes) Today, since we've now spent a significant amount of time writing and working in different ways, we will reflect on what kind of work we find most interesting and helpful. On a blank sheet of paper, reflect on your labor log, considering the following questions:
Today, as we move into the genre of the graphic novel, we're going to get in the practice of close-reading graphic novels.
Here's a summary of a few formal aspects of the graphic novel that McCloud described:
In pairs, choose one aspect of how the story is portrayed in a particular panel or page. It can be one of McCloud's formal elements above, or just a particularly thought-provoking aspect of an illustration.
For Class Discussion, I want to try out this new model today:
On Monday, we discussed the continual cycle of creation and destruction that Sebald seems to focus on in Rings of Saturn. Raya - thinking about the passage in which the "Dome of the Rock" is compared to "the dome of the new Sizewell reactor" suggested that Sebald disparages progress, that he laments the kind of "progress" that replaces religious temples with nuclear power plants.
Today, I would like us to take up a series of questions related to this point:
Passages:
We'll begin class by practicing asking good questions, since this is a skill you'll need for Paper 2. This can feel more difficult in the context of a larger text than the context of a single poem (Paper 1).
Example questions:
1 – 2 – 1 – 2 – 2 – 5 Sebald writes, quoted portion If the funeral march began on October 5 and arrived at its destination on November 1, it took not three weeks (as the narrator misleadingly suggests) but exactly four weeks or 28 days. At another point – to provide another example – we read that Emperor Kuang-hsu died in 1908 at the age of 37. According to this piece of information, however, he cannot have been a ‘two-year-old’ but must have been four years old when he acquired power over the monarchy from his predecessor T-ung-chich, who died in 1875 (179-185, 148-153). The barrage of dates and numbers in this and similar passages induces some confusion. The narrator undercuts the impeccable, seemingly irrecusable, logic of the victor’s history and, as such, implicitly challenges the legitimacy of the ruling class’s claim to power. 2 – 1 – 2 – 4 – 5 The barrage of dates and numbers induces some confusion. We read that Emperor Kuang-hsu died in 1908 at the age of 37. According to this piece of information, however, he cannot have been a ‘two-year-old’ but must have been four years old when he acquired power over the monarchy from his predecessor T-ung-chich, who died in 1875 (179-185, 148-153). Through the misrepresentation of dates and erroneous facts inserted into his text, the narrator figuratively breaks down the ‘continuum of history of the oppressors” on behalf of the fragmentary perspective of the oppressed. He undercuts the impeccable, seemingly irrecusable, logic of the victor’s history and, as such, implicitly challenges the legitimacy of the ruling class’s claim to power. 4 - 5 – 2 – 1 – 2 – 1 – 2 – 4 Through the misrepresentation of dates and erroneous facts inserted into his text, the narrator figuratively breaks down the ‘continuum of history of the oppressors” on behalf of the fragmentary perspective of the oppressed. He undercuts the impeccable, seemingly irrecusable, logic of the victor’s history and, as such, implicitly challenges the legitimacy of the ruling class’s claim to power. Let us consider two examples, beginning with the narrator’s account of the funeral march for Chinese Emperor Hsien-feng: example If the funeral march began on October 5 and arrived at its destination on November 1, it took not three weeks (as the narrator misleadingly suggests) but exactly four weeks or 28 days. At another point – to provide another example – we read that Emperor Kuang-hsu died in 1908 at the age of 37. According to this piece of information, however, he cannot have been a ‘two-year-old’ but must have been four years old when he acquired power over the monarchy from his predecessor T-ung-chich, who died in 1875 (179-185, 148-153). The narrator figuratively disrupts the continuum of the history of the victors.
(and in all of this, we are also aiming for specificity) What do I mean when I say a Thesis should have "tension"? There are two tensions we can keep in mind here. 1. The thesis must be argumentative - it must be possible to argue against your claim. 2. This claim is less intuitive - the strongest theses often have tension within the thesis itself.
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