the 2005/06 essay advice thread

[Pickman's model]

How's your Shakespeare Pickman's? I have an essay entitled:

"The Tempest has been described as 'a play imbricated within the discourse of colonialism'. Discuss the advantages and the disadvantages of post-colonial readings of the play"

Now I have a fair idea of the various colonial readings of the Tempest (although thoughts on these would be welcome), however I'm not quite sure which angle to tackle advantages and disadvantages from. Cheers!

After "The Tempest:" Shakespeare, Postcoloniality, and Michelle Cliff's New, New World Miranda
Thomas Cartelli
Contemporary Literature > Vol. 36, No. 1 (Spring, 1995), pp. 82-102

 

[Pickman's model]

Alternative Shakespeares / edited by John Drakakis
London ; New York : Routledge , 1988

Colonial women : race and culture in stuart drama / Heidi Hutner.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001

Critical essays on Shakespeare's The tempest / edited by Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan.
New York : G.K. Hall ; London : Prentice Hall International, c1998.

Cross-cultural performances : differences in women's re-visions of Shakespeare / edited by Marianne Novy
Urbana : University of Illinois Press , c1993

Performing nostalgia : shifting Shakespeare and the contemporary past / Susan Bennett
New York : Routledge , 1996

Post-colonial theory and English literature : a reader / edited and with an introduction by Peter Childs.
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c1999.

Shakespeare in Africa (& other venues) : import & the appropriation of culture / Lemuel A. Johnson
Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press , c1998

Shakespeare without class : misappropriations of cultural capital / edited by Donald Hedrick and Bryan Reynolds.
New York ; Basingstoke : Palgrave, 2000.

Shakespeare's Caliban : a cultural history / Alden T. Vaughan and Virginia Mason Vaughan.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press , 1991

The tempest : sources and contexts, criticism, rewritings and appropriations / William Shakespeare ; edited by Peter Hulme and William H. Sherman.
New York; London : W.W. Norton, c2004.

The tempest : a case study in critical controversy / William Shakespeare ; edited by Gerald Graff, James Phelan.
Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's ; Basingstoke : Macmillan, 2000

"The tempest" and its travels / edited by Peter Hulme and William H. Sherman.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2000

 

[strung out]

Many thanks Pickman's, most useful. I'll inform you of my progress and success later!

 

[electrogirl]

Hello.

I'm doing a sociology essay about the purpose of imprisonment.

"What is inprisonment meant to achieve and what does it achieve?"

My main problem is the width of the question.

MY plan was to talk about

Deterrence
Rehabilitation
Incapicitation
Abolitionism

But maybe that is too much for a 3000 word essay and I should concentrate on one perspective?

ANy help would be great.

 

[wtfftw]

Hello.

Critically evaluate Brah and Pheonix's account of intersectionality in 'Ain't I a Woman: Revisiting Intersectionality'. Make reference to at least three other contributors to the debate in your essay.


Obviously I've got hold of the mentioned text. I've also got some bits on race and gender but not much on class. Any suggestions?

 

[Pickman's model]

Hello.

I'm doing a sociology essay about the purpose of imprisonment.

"What is inprisonment meant to achieve and what does it achieve?"

My main problem is the width of the question.

MY plan was to talk about

Deterrence
Rehabilitation
Incapicitation
Abolitionism

But maybe that is too much for a 3000 word essay and I should concentrate on one perspective?

ANy help would be great.

look at foucault's discipline and punish - also ignatieff's book on the penitentiary. some stats on reoffending. and a dose of common sense.

the prison serves three main functions: isolation; rehabilitation (sometimes); punishment. however, it punishes some strata of society more than others. not just class but race, too. but though it isolates, it doesn't remove the root causes of crime, nor does it usually leave the criminal better able to fend in society. another 2,900 in the same vein and yr sorted!

 

[Pickman's model]

Hello.

Critically evaluate Brah and Pheonix's account of intersectionality in 'Ain't I a Woman: Revisiting Intersectionality'. Make reference to at least three other contributors to the debate in your essay.


Obviously I've got hold of the mentioned text. I've also got some bits on race and gender but not much on class. Any suggestions?

i know nothing!

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=intersectionality+brah+phoenix&hl=en&lr=&start=0&sa=N

 

[wtfftw]

i know nothing!

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=intersectionality+brah+phoenix&hl=en&lr=&start=0&sa=N

Worth a try.
I've been hitting up google scholar hard.

 

[Pickman's model]

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people may pm me should they require essay advice.

 

[Pickman's model]

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