February 2012
14 posts
sx salon, Issue 8 →
Our discussion in this issue is perhaps even more varied than usual, bringing together a collection of pieces that consider the in-betweenity of Haitian identity. Of course, the mention of Haiti since 12 January 2010 is often, if not always, associated with the devastation of the earthquake, and our first two pieces address the then/now split created by that tectonic shift. First, Martin Munro...
The Brakeman Has Resigned: An Aggressive Student... →
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“Teaching is when you have one person, a teacher in a room, doing improv with a class. Looking at the students, looking at them as people. And all faculty should be made to teach freshmen. This idea that ‘Oh, the freshmen—let’s leave that to the graduate students, the slaves.’…
How to Escape from a Leper Colony →
“Killing a young mother is not such a big thing if the mother is a leper, especially if she was a leper when she conceived. Nuns are not supposed to have romantic feelings for each other or for priests or for us. This is something they are thought to have in common with lepers. We are not supposed to have desires.”
- From “How to Escape from a Leper Colony” by Tiphanie...
Blogging the Caribbean
“For the Caribbean, my favorite blog is Norman Girvan’s Caribbean Political Economy. I was always a fan of Girvan’s writing on the political economy of development and underdevelopment in the Caribbean, and the impact and role that transnational corporations have had on Caribbean political sovereignty and economic integrity. Girvan’s Corporate Imperialism, Conflict, and Expropriation:...
Teaching English: The Keepers: Multiliteracy →
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“[The combination of the sciences and the arts] is exactly what we need. We have to bring this back, this idea of all of culture integrated. This is what we must do for the next generation of students. We must do this. We must make radical reforms of undergraduate and graduate…”
- An excerpt from “Crisis in the American Universities” by Camille Paglia
Leanne Shapton on Process
“Sometimes I feel I get a lot done waiting for something else, with my shoes and coat on, with the car running. I don’t have a set routine. I can work for hours at a time, but I get a lot of stuff done in these weird starts and stops, which makes it a little bit harder to track. I have so many backs of envelopes with notes written on them in my pockets or stuffed into the side door of a...
Good Like Cook Food →
My review in The Caribbean Review of Books of Caribbean Erotic: Poetry, Prose & Essays edited by Opal Palmer Adisa and Donna Aza Weir-Soley.
