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Susanna Dolan edited the blog post Reflections on Straddling, Good Faith Scholarship, and Scorn in connecting N.K. Jemisin’s epigraph with Percival Everett’s The Trees in the group American Studies: 1 year, 10 months ago
Oh, no. No, no, no. There’s too much to learn from examining that tension between the power and the impact of the art and realizing where that art comes from and what the impetus behind that art is. The best way […]
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Susanna Dolan wrote a new blog post How Does One Call and Respond? in the group American Studies: 2 years, 1 month ago
What does it mean to call and respond? I believe that answering this question will provide insight into the governing aesthetic of The Riverside Anthology of African American Literary Tradition: Call and […]
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Susanna Dolan edited the blog post Final Reflective Essay INTD 203 – Understanding Suspicious Pants in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 3 months ago
On the first day of
classes Dr. McCoy wrote a quote on the board from Percival Everett stating,
“It’s incredible that a sentence is ever understood.” Being that it was my
first day of class I jotted down the w […] -
Susanna Dolan edited the blog post Structure and Understanding in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 3 months ago
In class recently after reading Body from Percival Everett’s
re:f(gesture) Dr. McCoy provided a prompt for further discussion. This
prompt states:“Percival Everett’s “Body” intervenes in the blazon form.
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Susanna Dolan edited the blog post Composite or Whole in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 3 months ago
Recently, in preparation for class, I read a section of
poems from Percival Everett’s re:
f(gesture) called Logic. As
we were discussing these poems in small groups, I found myself drawn to one
particular line t […] -
Susanna Dolan edited the blog post Abecedarium and Meaning in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 4 months ago
In preparation for class this past week I read the poem Zulus
from Percival Everett’s re:f(gesture). Dr. McCoy had previously
shared that the poem is an abecedarium, which means that it follows the […] -
Susanna Dolan edited the blog post Privilege and Not Sidney Poitier in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 4 months ago
Recently for my Sociology
100 class I read an excerpt from an article titled “White
Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy McIntosh. This
article includes a list of advantages that McIntosh fou […] -
Susanna Dolan edited the blog post Nunsense: The Irony of Naming in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 4 months ago
By: Hannah Smith, Joe Sharak, Mia Sidoti, Liz Roos, & Susanna Dolan
When reading Percival Everett’s novel I Am Not Sidney Poitier, our group observed the multitude of intertextual references to Sidney P […]
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Susanna Dolan wrote a new blog post Plagiarism with Purpose in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 5 months ago
Recently in class, Professor McCoy had us take Milne Library’s Plagiarism Tutorial. This course served to teach us about the different types, and extent of plagiarism. It also provided us a better understanding o […]
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Susanna Dolan wrote a new blog post What does it mean to be a sheep? in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 5 months ago
While
reading Percival Everett’s I am Not Sidney Poitier for class on Friday I
was struck by something that the character of Percival Everett says to Not
Sidney. Not Sidney goes to Everett’s office to get his per […] -
Susanna Dolan wrote a new blog post Conventions v. Creativity in Genre in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 5 months ago
Recently,
in my English 203 class, Dr. McCoy showed us four videos by Demi Adejuyigbe. On
September 21st, 2016 he posted a video of himself dancing to Earth, Wind,
& Fire’s song “September”. Adejuyigbe has poste […] -
Susanna Dolan edited the blog post Knowledge vs. Love in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 6 months ago
Recently in my English 203 class Dr. McCoy asked us to work in a small group to discuss what Percival Everett is doing for, to, and with Euripides play The Bacchae in his novel Frenzy. Immediately our […]
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Susanna Dolan edited the blog post The problem with knowing everything. in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 6 months ago
“The
interesting thing about irony for me is that real irony is far more sincere
than earnestness. To accept the absurdity of a situation is to accept the
humanness of it. Utter sincerity suggests a kind of be […] -
Susanna Dolan joined the group American Studies 4 years, 6 months ago
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Susanna Dolan joined the group Reader and Text 4 years, 7 months ago
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Susanna Dolan became a registered member 4 years, 7 months ago