Twamley's ASTU

  Last Thursday my ASTU 100 CLASS went to the University of British Columbia’s Archives to find original documents within the fond of Joy Kogawa. In her fond held beneath the Irving K. Barber learning center we found many different manuscripts that Joy Kogawa and other patrons donated that include but not limited to original drafts of her book Obasan, family trees, historical timelines, early rejection letters and editorial corrections. Within the plethora of flies, one manuscript that stood out to me and many people in my class was a…read more

It feels like it has been a while since I have written a blog. And over the past couple of weeks we have covered a lot in regard to memory. We have mostly switched our medium of learning from academic articles to narratives which has provided are class with a very nice and well deserved break from scholarly language, in my opinion. We were introduced to a graphic narrative called Safe Area Gorazde by Joe Sacco, which centers around an American journalist who goes to the former Yugoslavia during the…read more