In recent weeks, I have given you two handouts regarding postcolonial and feminist literary theory. (If they were stolen from you, here is a link to a place where you can download them.) Your job now is to choose one of these lenses to use in analyzing Things Fall Apart. So the question is: Do you want to subject the text to a feminist or postcolonial reading?
After you make that decision, I'm asking you to create a blog where you describe what you're going to write about. How are you going to utilize the theoretical text? What insights will you use in order to frame your analysis?
Then talk a bit about what you would like to say about the novel. Basically, this is a prewriting exercise that is designed to help you develop a topic. I want to have a chance to read these things before you take off on an essay (so that I can head off any problems that I see before you get 1500 words into it).
This post should be at least 300 words, and MUST QUOTE FROM THE THEORETICAL TEXT. Due before class on Monday. Have fun.
P.S. If you would like to apply an alternative lens, you may. However, this means that you will have to do your own research on that theory.
