blogibilities
To heartily second, endorse, and refine Mayor Coleman's suggestions about blog use, I have compiled my own list of what "we" might do with this "blog." Three further possibilities...
(a) Collective wisdom
Sometimes answers to life's tougher questions are not forthcoming. But put enough graduate student minds together and you've got a virtual Library of Alexandria of random facts.
How this might work:
For some reason, in the middle of Fredric Jameson's The Political Unconscious, he starts talking about this thing that I really don't understand. It's called a combinatoire. I looked it up. I googled it. I know it has something to do with a rectangle or a triangle. Some sort of geometry. Which of you semioticians can help me with the combinatoire?
(b) Random Shouts Out (literary)
I am curious about what people read/see that's great.
How this might work:
I recently read Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North. As far as I know, this is an obscure Arabic-language Sudanese novel which is seldom read, but it's entirely possible that I'm in the dark. Has everyone already read it? Does anyone want to talk about it?
(c) Random Shout Outs (less literary)
Slightly-less-literary conversations are also possible.
How this might work:
What blogs does everyone read? I mostly read about politics and baseball, but I've always wondered if there were good lit-themed blogs I should be scoping. Suggestions?
God Save the Mayor!
Comments
ok, where is 'erase' function for this blog?
Posted by: Na-Rae | March 5, 2008 4:05 PM
Oooh, I found "Season of Migration to the North" really interesting. As far as I know, this book is really big in postcolonial/Arab studies, etc. If you are interested, there's interesting articles and book-length study of the novel too. What did you think about the book?
Posted by: Na-Rae | March 5, 2008 3:59 PM
Ooh, I liked "Season of Migration to the North." As far as I know, it is really big in Postcolonial studies/ Arab Studies, etc. There is a book length study of the book and other really interesting articles too if you're interested.
Posted by: Na-Rae | March 5, 2008 3:56 PM