Second Paper Topics
Write a well written, well argued paper on any one of the topics below. Your paper is due by the end of class time, Tuesday, 11/28, in my box in LLA 111. Late papers will be docked one-third of a letter grade for each day late. Feel free to make full use of the Writing Center in 008 Belk Library.
Your paper should be typed, double-spaced in a 12-point font with standard margins.
It should be a minimum of 3 full pages and a maximum of 5 pages in length.
There should be a cover page including an original and informative title for your paper, your name, this course, my name and the date.
There should be a bibliography with MLA references for any works cited in the paper.
Papers should be stapled in the upper left-hand corner. No binders or folders please.
Pages should be numbered.
Keep a copy of your paper.
1. Compare and contrast Trinh’s writing about writing with Velazquez’s painting about painting as discussed in Foucault’s “Las Meninas.” For Trinh, what political issues hinge on these issues of representation and its limitations? How might these political issues be relevant to writings from within your own concentration/discipline/major/minor? Explain.
2. Write yourself. Making explicit use of Trinh, “write yourself” in three to five pages (Trinh 28). How is this project different from simply “writing about yourself” for Trinh? Explain it at the same time as you do it.
3. Trinh writes: "Anthropology is finally better defined as 'gossip' (we speak together about others) than as 'conversation' (we discuss a question)" and that "a conversation of 'us' with 'us' about 'them' is a conversation in which 'them' is silenced" (68, 67). Do you think Trinh is correct in her assessment of Anthropology as a kind of gossip? How much of your own field of study could be characterized as gossip in a similar way? Does it matter for your field if some of the production of knowledge that takes place is in the form of gossip or not? Why or why not? Explain and give an argument for your view. In this context, some of you may wish to explore Donna Haraway's remark in her article "Situated Knowledges" that: "Acknowledging the agency of the world in knowledge makes room for some unsettling possibilities, including a sense of the world's independent sense of humour. Such a sense of humour is not comfortable for humanists and others committed to the world as resource. Richly evocative figures exist for feminist visualizations of the world as witty agent."
4. Come up with a topic of your own. Write down your idea in the form of a brief thesis statement, then come and discuss your proposal with me by Monday, 11/20. If you wish to write on a topic of your own, you must talk with me first.
Your paper should be typed, double-spaced in a 12-point font with standard margins.
It should be a minimum of 3 full pages and a maximum of 5 pages in length.
There should be a cover page including an original and informative title for your paper, your name, this course, my name and the date.
There should be a bibliography with MLA references for any works cited in the paper.
Papers should be stapled in the upper left-hand corner. No binders or folders please.
Pages should be numbered.
Keep a copy of your paper.
1. Compare and contrast Trinh’s writing about writing with Velazquez’s painting about painting as discussed in Foucault’s “Las Meninas.” For Trinh, what political issues hinge on these issues of representation and its limitations? How might these political issues be relevant to writings from within your own concentration/discipline/major/minor? Explain.
2. Write yourself. Making explicit use of Trinh, “write yourself” in three to five pages (Trinh 28). How is this project different from simply “writing about yourself” for Trinh? Explain it at the same time as you do it.
3. Trinh writes: "Anthropology is finally better defined as 'gossip' (we speak together about others) than as 'conversation' (we discuss a question)" and that "a conversation of 'us' with 'us' about 'them' is a conversation in which 'them' is silenced" (68, 67). Do you think Trinh is correct in her assessment of Anthropology as a kind of gossip? How much of your own field of study could be characterized as gossip in a similar way? Does it matter for your field if some of the production of knowledge that takes place is in the form of gossip or not? Why or why not? Explain and give an argument for your view. In this context, some of you may wish to explore Donna Haraway's remark in her article "Situated Knowledges" that: "Acknowledging the agency of the world in knowledge makes room for some unsettling possibilities, including a sense of the world's independent sense of humour. Such a sense of humour is not comfortable for humanists and others committed to the world as resource. Richly evocative figures exist for feminist visualizations of the world as witty agent."
4. Come up with a topic of your own. Write down your idea in the form of a brief thesis statement, then come and discuss your proposal with me by Monday, 11/20. If you wish to write on a topic of your own, you must talk with me first.
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