The “Lolita Vlogs” project was created with the intention of revealing Dolores Haze’s missing perspective from Vladmir Nabokov’s Lolita. I wanted to explore some of what was going on in Dolores’ head during some of the key moments of the story. Each vlog takes place in a different location and time. The language was an […]
In last week’s class, Lee proposed a great question that we didn’t talk too much about, so I’ve decided to use it as the launch point for this week’s readings (particularly that of the last two books of Middlesex). The question was something along these lines: Is it important for an author to have an […]
Before I started reading the first two books of Middlesex, I automatically assumed I would be writing a blog post about the nature of being born intersex and societal labels and the prejudices that arise because of those labels, etc. But as I started reading the novel, I was shocked to see how little of […]
They say death does not discriminate. And, for the most part, it’s true. Death comes for all of us one day. Most of us don’t know when that day is and most of us live with the knowledge of our imminent death on the backburner of our conscious. But there are some individuals—the sick, the […]
I’d like to grab Act I, Scene 7 from Part I of Angels in America (the Prior/Harper scene). If anyone else is interested in that scene, just leave a comment–I’d be totally fine with pairing up! I’ll put up my blog post a little later in the week! Happy Thursday!
This week’s readings paid very close attention to the power relations within African American communities. The African Americans in Sula and the essays by Stevenson and Hansen were often in a position of powerlessness. Be it slavery in the South or racism in the North, whites used numerous tactics to keep positions of power over […]
One element that seemed pervasive in both Lolita and Chapter 10 of the Peiss book was the influence of movies on adolescents. It is undeniable that the media can have major effects on teenage behavior (whether that influence is positive or negative is probably an argument for another day). Dolores is one of countless teenagers […]
If you look at the color wheel, you would notice two “colors” decidedly missing from it: black and white. It has long been debated whether either should actually be considered a color, since white is more of a light reflection than an actual color, and black is the absence of light and color. The grayness […]
So after spending the past two days making very good friends over the phone with TimeWarner Cable’s customer service, I finally have internet in order to respond to our fascinating trip to the Museum of Sex! I was struck by several things at the Museum. First off, I liked the unapologetic displays. Nothing was off […]
