English @ SUNY Geneseo | Ken Wolfson | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/vindication/activity/ Activity feed for Ken Wolfson. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 f7e3c9f65e3f3b8e22704137e6c0766d Ken Wolfson wrote a new blog post The (Re)Birth of a Nation in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7695/ Sun, 11 Dec 2016 13:18:16 -0500 I’m not sure if anyone has posted about a certain film that premiered during this semester and carries massive cultural implications in our current, racially charged climate. Since we’ve somehow not mentioned it […]

]]> 0 7838c32ad61337cedee2c8b2c451f5af Ken Wolfson edited the blog post Scapegoats, Morrison, and how a paradise can be ruined. in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7661/ Thu, 01 Dec 2016 15:24:32 -0500 Today I read a pair of blogposts and attached articles analyzing Toni Morrison/Paradiso that I felt would go together wonderfully.

The first was by Hannah, and included this article describing in Zhizekian terms how tyrants create their oppressive regimes.  To summarize: the tyrants create an evil other, which they give responsibility for al…[Read more]

]]> 0 aaf0573cfe09fb917bddff970810353a Ken Wolfson edited the blog post SPOILERS Connections Between Dante and Morrison: The World Soul in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7567/ Mon, 07 Nov 2016 06:30:34 -0500 During our group discussions on Thursday, my group attempted to find concepts that would form a connection between Toni Morrison and Dante for them to even have a discourse, and left rather unsatisfied with the […]

]]> 0 de79343bedd66272d4604ffadf13f015 Ken Wolfson wrote a new blog post Dante and Florence in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7436/ Mon, 17 Oct 2016 20:52:15 -0500 While researching Dante and the Paradiso (I’m also taking Poetry and Cosmology, which employs Paradiso,) I stumbled upon some very amusing historical information that might give context to Toni Morrison’s […]

]]> 0 6ab5bebdd8d70dfe20b37c547feccaa3 Ken Wolfson edited the blog post On Single Stories and The Sabotage of American Education in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7392/ Tue, 11 Oct 2016 23:50:15 -0500 After watching Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED Talk about the dangers of the single story, and reading Hannah’s blogpost, I can’t help but think of the education profession in this country.  My mother’s a fourth g […]

]]> 0 2c0c9e3528edd5e01b6b727ab65e98b4 Ken Wolfson wrote a new blog post On Grief in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7223/ Thu, 15 Sep 2016 22:29:45 -0500 Unlike Sarah, I didn’t find A Mercy’s twist ending to be a happy surprise.  I feel that the ending summarized the themes of grief that strike through every facet of the novel.   Floren’s character has been bent ar […]

]]> 0 ab3e5c32cfa35c014f98e212cbee5034 Ken Wolfson edited the blog post Tony Morrison on Black Oppression and Cynicism in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6988/ Sun, 04 Sep 2016 07:41:47 -0500 After our discussion of racism and reading on the first day of class, I did some research on Toni Morrison and her views on slavery.  I came across this guardian article on her views.  I paid particular attention to the part on her critique of American history.  I say that in the second chapter, Morrison makes a statement on the reasons behind th…[Read more]

]]> 0 a7b20ea5675c472ddcaeb8fa38101b1c Ken Wolfson joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6792/ Mon, 29 Aug 2016 17:59:02 -0500 0 76462e4f9b541a8fff8d2f097981f72b Ken Wolfson wrote a new post on the site Open Humanities http://openhumanities.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=292 Wed, 02 Dec 2015 20:48:31 -0500 For today’s blog we’re going to compare Sigmund Freud’s religious views to those of the previous authors we’ve studied in HUM 2.  Freud had an atheistic world view, and said that religion was an expression of […]

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