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I say this every November and April, but I can’t believe that it is already the end of the semester! I learned a lot in this course – I have never done a “just theory” course and my favourite part … Continue reading →

  It was really interesting to consider the weight behind the term “culture” as I went through the readings this week. I think today, when someone employs the term in casual conversation, listeners definitely relate it to, as Rivkin and … Continue reading →

One of the things I found very interesting about all of this week’s readings was that they each presented a different focus and perspective on discussions of postcolonial and transnational studies. Loomba makes us reflect on what might be a … Continue reading →

Gloria Anzaldua’s “Borderlands/La Frontera” really made me think of the inseparable bond between language and identity. Perhaps this is not surprising as it is one of the main topics of the excerpt – and it is even reflected at the … Continue reading →

I’ve always been fascinated by the world of film and the film industry, and I think this is in largely in part to the ways in which it overlaps with literature and storytelling. The one thing I believe more than … Continue reading →

The article that I found most interesting this week was Judith Halberstam’s “Female Masculinity,” maybe because I had never read this text before, and also I like that it comes from a 1998 book (relatively recent). I found her argument … Continue reading →

It seems especially fitting that our feminism week of readings falls at a time when some of the main news headlines are the one year anniversary of sixteen year old Malala Yousafzai’s shooting at the hands of the Taliban in … Continue reading →

As someone who has always found the link between literature and politics fascinating, I really enjoyed the variety in this week’s readings and after completing them I find myself thinking the most about the arguments Žižek puts forward in his … Continue reading →

The reading that I found most interesting from this week’s set was Lacan’s “Seminar on ‘The Purloined Letter’”. This is undoubtedly because I really enjoy literature and Edgar Allan Poe is one of my favourite American authors; it had been … Continue reading →

One of the main reasons that I find reading Derrida’s work useful is that I find it to be a useful tool/way of thinking in navigating the many messages that we are confronted with in today’s world on a daily … Continue reading →