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Thomas McCarthy wrote a new blog post Redemption and Cynicism in “Mr Smith Goes to Washington” in the group Film Talk: 9 years, 7 months ago

I found Frank Capra’s film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington fascinating. I was very quickly reminded of Mark Twain in the sense that the portrayal of the senators and the political system is heavily satirized both t […]
Thomas McCarthy edited the blog post Canto I Beat in the group American Studies: 9 years, 10 months ago

I don’t have anything particularly insightful to say about this, but I find it fascinating how many different ways Dante’s text is used.
Thomas McCarthy edited the blog post “Subverting” and Repurposing Dante in the group American Studies: 9 years, 10 months ago

A question I have had early on in our class is why Toni Morrison chose Dante’s trilogy to frame and play with in at least three of her novels. I read Dante in HUM I like everyone else. I thought the text was fascinating and rich, and I can see the value of studying it, and I have a great respect for the scholarship surrounding it. Yet, the moral,…[Read more]
Thomas McCarthy edited the blog post Foucault’s “Panopticism” and Morrison’s Individuals in the group American Studies: 9 years, 10 months ago

I have been unable to shake a connection I made between the Foucauldian reading of the Panopticon and the ways in which Morrison, through internal character dialogue, examines systems of power and domination, which from my readings so far are overt and important themes across Morrison’s work; each novel explores in different times and places…[Read more]
Thomas McCarthy edited the blog post “The Songs are Free”: Black Oral Tradition and the Classroom in the group American Studies: 9 years, 11 months ago

I was especially moved by Bernice Johnson Reagon’s articulations about the oral tradition within Black churches and Civil Rights movements and later our unique dynamic in the classroom. Bill Moyers jokingly comments that his experience with the Southern Christian (white) churches is vastly different from Bernice’s. He jokes that “This Little Light…[Read more]
Thomas McCarthy edited the blog post “Phantom” Assumptions and Expectations in the group American Studies: 9 years, 11 months ago

Dr. Beth invoked an excellent metaphor for the outside forces that affect our responses to cultural productions like Morrison’s A Mercy. The idea is that we as products of various cultural and other forces bring expectations and assumptions into the space of the classroom, and if we do not try to root our responses in the text themselves, we are…[Read more]

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