EMAIL<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0SYLLABUS<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0POLICIES<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0| QUESTIONS<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0|\u00a0PRESENTATIONS<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0JOURNALS<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0PAPER<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0EXAM<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. Jean Rhys\u2019 short story \u201cThe Day They Burned the Books\u201d has much to do with race and social class, but how does the fact that the story is told from the perspective of a child (even if at some distance from the events) affect the exploration of those things?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. In Jean Rhys\u2019 \u201cThe Day They Burned the Books,\u201d a number of titles are mentioned from among the many the departed Mr. Sawyer had collected: choose two or three and consider what they add to a reader\u2019s understanding of the story\u2019s main events \u2014 Froude\u2019s The English in the West Indies,<\/em> Kipling\u2019s Kim,<\/em> Christina Rossetti\u2019s poetry, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. In Jean Rhys\u2019 short story \u201cLet Them Call It Jazz,\u201d what new ethos or perspective results from the narrator\u2019s experiences in a hostile and foreign place: London? How do her emotions and thoughts develop before her stint in prison, and how does the song she hears there serve as a catalyst for further changes in her perspective and her ability to deal with her situation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. Consider what eventually happens to the song Jean Rhys\u2019 narrator in \u201cLet Them Call It Jazz\u201d hears in prison. How does she respond to this eventual transformation? What does the song\u2019s transformation suggest about the social and other mechanisms that reinforce misunderstanding and mistreatment of people based on ethnicity and socio-economic status?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Edition:<\/strong> Greenblatt, Stephen et al, eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature.<\/em> 8th ed. Vol. E. New York: Norton, 2006. ISBN Package 2 (Vols. DEF) 0-393-92834-9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" JEAN RHYS QUESTIONS 1. Jean Rhys\u2019 short story \u201cThe Day They Burned the Books\u201d has much to do with race and social class, but how does the fact that the story is told from the perspective of a child (even if at some distance from the events) affect the exploration of those things? 2. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"wf_page_folders":[43],"class_list":["post-529","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4682,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/529\/revisions\/4682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}