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Overview
These reading explore how we view ourselves, our roles, and the world. How much of what we know has been told to us by others? How much of it have we determined for ourselves? Are we preconditioned to accept, then reject the identities imposed upon us by family, friends, and society at large? When do these clashes result in the need to examine one's own ethics?
Readings THEORETICAL BASES
Baudrillard, Jean. "Simulacra and Simulations" in Selected Writings. 2nd ed. Edited and introduced by Mark Poster. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2001.
Barthes, Roland. "The Uncertainty of Signs" in A Lover's Discourse: Fragments. trans. Richard Howard. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1978.
Barthes, Roland. "Ornamental Cookery" in Mythologies. trans. Annette Lavers. NY: Hill and Wang, 1972.
Sontag, Susan. "Notes on "Camp"" (1965)
What is an Urban Legend? Carl Sagan (1996) "The Demon-Haunted World: Science As A Candle In The Dark"
Walker, Alice. "Looking for Zora" (1975)
FILM My Son, The Fanatic (dir. Udayan Prasad, 1999)
Mississippi Masala (dir. Mira Nair, 1992)
LITERATURE--PROSE Abdoh, Salar. The Poet Game (2000)
Lewis, Sinclair from "Babbit" (1922) Chapter XII
POETRY Thomas Nashe "Litany in a Time of Plague" (Adieu, Earth's fair bliss)
W. B. Yeats "The Second Coming" (gyres ... & what rough beast slouches toward bethlehem to be born?)
Sharon Olds (understanding via family ties) "High School Senior" (from The Wellspring"
John Ashbery "My Philosophy of Life" (looking at your life self-consciously -- like the philosophers did/do)
Gwendolyn Brooks "We Real Cool" (1960)
Horace Book 1, No. 11 (don't be too eager to ask what the gods have in mind for us)
Amy Clampit "Fog" (a vagueness comes over everything)
Christina Rosetti "Up-Hill" (Does the road wind up-hill all the way?)
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