The Other is a concept developed by the post-colonial theorist Edward Said in the 1970's in regards to how foreign races (in particular Arabs) have been portrayed in Western texts. There's a lot of research on it available on the Internet so I suggest you start there.
Okay, so in class we have just been given the question from last year's HSC paper, but changed slightly to:
Write an essay in which you explore the interplay of the personal and the political in the non-fiction text Hiroshima and one related text that represents ways of thinking in After the...
drop it for shiz
unless you absolutely love your idea and have a real passion for it, just do it
i would if it wasn't my 11th unit, and my only chance at having one of my advanced units not count :)
Well!
Originally I wanted to do an essay on the ability of magical realism literature to serve as a vector to express post-colonial ideas, butt I was just told that this has been done before. Like not for 4U major work but there's a lot of books out there on the topic in the academic world, and...
the film Pleasantville
poetry by Bruce Dawe
some schools are doing the book Mao's Last Dancer
ummm
Any of Obama's speeches
Or Martin Luther King's 'I Have A Dream'
Ahh i'm doing change and it is unbelievably boring.
We're doing Bruce Dawe poetry, and The Princess Diaries (ridiculous)
For an assessment task, we need to choose two other texts, so I'm doing the film Pleasantville but a bit stuck on another text? It has to a be a written text.
At the moment, ways of approaching a text, like theoretical ideologies, i.e. feminism, marxism, post-colonialism
Then later this year, appropriations of Le Morte D'Arthur by Malory (quest for Holy Grail)
this is for prelim, no idea for hsc