Lecture Notes for Nov 6, 2008

English 008 with Hill at University of Iowa

About this deck

By: Grace Savides
Textbook:

A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club)

Corregidora

Mama Day

Mumbo Jumbo

Philadelphia Fire: A Novel
Sula

Sula

The Chaneysville Incident

THE COLOR PURPLE

The Known World
Created: 2008-11-07
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Two frames
(2 answers)

Cudjoe
Author

Dilmma for Cudjoe
(8 answers)

In Chaneysville John and Judith if the end is read triumphant is hope for an interracial feature
Autobiographically proping this idea
Greece was sensual satisfaction for Cudjoe
He's trying to negotiate something more than harmonies
Desire to hook up is juxtaposed with emotional dilemma
What's her trying to prove with Simmie?
Feels he's a failure as a husband, father, and a black man (racial community)
Fracture with in his identity tied to these failues

Professional anxiety
(7 answers)

Uncertainty about self and skills as a water
Margaret Jones' ask him why he wants to wrtie book
Living memory was written history
Margaret Jones says we've got truth seekers asks if he's looking for profit
Stealing from dead?- Creophiliac?
Commodity of writing, an economic prouct and artistic product
He wasn't there for his kids, emotionally or economically

Sub-Header
(6 answers)

Cudjoe figure ot the arist, artistic anxiety
Cudjoe returns home (what a shock)
Cudjoe's a metaphor for Wideman's own artistic anxiety
Philadelphia fire actually happened, this is historical fiction
Cudjoe's in Greece, reads about fire and goes home
What's the reason for Cudjoe and why are the two narrators are so important? (Cudjoe and John Edgar Wideman?)

Things become real when they're seen or witnessed
(2 answers)

Female bodies
Philadelphia Fire

The Author in the Book
(14 answers)

May 13, 1985
Trick of narrative, autobiographical interludes
Judy in his wife
Autogbiographical details are mediated by Cudjoe
Return to the same event
Why does he place himself so directly within the frame of contemplation?
Two frames
In Mama Day
Female bodies for Cudjoe
What do you do with the past?
Trying to heal a personal wound
Event no from his past, racial obligations makes him look
How does experience get constituted
Things become real when they're seen or witnessed

In Mama Day
(1 answer)

Past for George is unsuccessible and unhelpful