What is America one encounters and studies in a postmodern age? Is it a discourse? A bounded collective identity or a set of manifold, changing, and contingent identities? A fiction? An idea? A history? A place? If place has its say, are we talking about a nation, or several nations within a nation? And who are ‘Americans’? What do they share in common, what is their ‘American-ness’?

Thursday, September 21, 2006

SO, the suspense evaporates, slowly but surely...

The film that I am hoping you can find easily (I've checked a few Video Stores, and they have it), is a little master-piece by one Jim Jarmusch, called 'Night on Earth'. I have two copies of it. If you cannot find it, just let me know. There is always a back-up plan.

Hence, see the film, make sure that you watch it carefully. Take some notes (it has 4 distinct parts, only one is in English), and monitor your response - which part attracted you more? why might that be the case? are the stories connected? what comes out and what is lost in the shift of narrative?

hope you like it:-)

Monday, September 04, 2006

Some links about N. Scott Momaday and his work:

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/momaday/momaday.htm

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/mom0pro-1

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/producers/momaday.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._Scott_Momaday

Check them out!