HW for March 2

Take the time of Carnaval break to read Langston Hughes's poems in the anthology and Toni Morison's "Recitatif". Answer at least to one of the following:

1. Choose your favorite poem by Langston Hughes and analyze it with close reading skills.

2. Comment on points of contact or contrast between any poem and Toni Morrison's short story.

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

Toni Morrison (1931-2019)

HW for Feb 19: compare text-image analysis

In this blog you will find an interesting, but not very technical, analysis of some pages of Citizen 13660:
http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2010/10/27/mine-okubo-citizen-13660/

Choose one of the instances and use your skills to improve on that analysis!

You will find the analyzed instances in the following pages of Citizen 13660

p. 74 – toilent partitions

p. 82 – Acme beer

p. 162-163 – pregnant women

HW for Feb 17

Choose any page or set of 2 facing pages in Miné Okubo's Citizen 13660, and write an analysis, considering both picture and text.

On Symbols and Signs + HW for Feb 12

see the page of the International Nabokov Society, http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/bio.htm

In "Symbols and Signs", comment on one or more of the following aspects:

1. Use of deictics

2. Character description - the son

3. Contextual references and relation to the time the short story was written (1948)

Cartoons and Comics

Shared Characteristics:

Caricature: art that exaggerates physical experience (the animus - one reason for anthropomorfization)

Speech (ballloons or bubbles appear more often in comics)

Written commentary or caption

Comics are “juxtaposed pictorial and other images in a deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or produce an aesthetic response in the viewer.” (Scott McCoud, Understanding Comics, 1994)

Images - Visual Conventions - Narrative - Popular Appeal

The Yellow Kid, 1897

Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel): 1904-1991

Walt (Walter Elias) Disney: 1901-1966