Normal?

DEBRIEF FROM COMPLEXITY CONFERENCE! 
=What connections did you make between our class and what you experienced there? 

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Tuesday, 5 March – What is a normal life anyway? 

• read 1/3 of Phillips: 1-15

• getting going on femcriticon!

Thursday, 7 March – Whose bodies are these? 

• STORIES: Hopkinson: Part I

• getting going on femcriticon!

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Click pic for info on the Award

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You should begin the biography of James Tiptree Jr by Phillips and start thinking about colonialisms, feminisms, and their twentieth century histories as offered through the life of Alice Sheldon. Colonialisms and feminisms are intwined with science fiction throughout the twentieth century and the materials we read today are both a reaction to this and a continuation of it in complicated ways. James Tiptree as a figure helps us understand this. And it is a fascinating biography just in itself! So just keep reading if you find yourself caught up in the story!

For Tuesday read Chs 1-15 (these are very very short chapters). 

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Colonialism: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Colonialism: Wikipedia

Introduction to Postcolonial Studies

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Thursday, 7 March – Whose bodies are these? 

• add then Hopkinson: section I: the body -- put the bio & stories together: how can you use Johnson's terms (below) to do so? 

• 2011 Tiptree Award went to Andrea Hairston for Redwood and Wildfire; she was one of the guests of honor last year at WisCon  -- her story in Hopkinson I: Body: "Griots of the Galaxy"  

decolonizing mind? 

===MEDIA===

=> For So Long Been Dreaming, Part I: Body: Lai's "Rachel" -- cf. with Liu's "The Paper Menagerie".

Cf. with Wide Sargasso Sea 

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Vocab: SJ terms, KK's defs 

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