Teaching Morrison in Alabama After the Faulkner Unit

Teaching Morrison in Alabama After the Faulkner Unit

Teaching Morrison in Alabama After the Faulkner Unit

Toni Morrison after Faulkner produces the specific pedagogical situation of two writers who share a Deep South literary inheritance and who use that inheritance in ways whose differences illuminate what each is doing. The students who read Faulkner with the critical distance that historical material provides and then read Morrison with the recognition that the same historical material is present and has a different relationship to it -- that Morrison's characters are in the genealogy of Faulkner's characters, that the land is the same land, that the history is the same history read from the inside rather than from the plantation house -- produce the most interesting seminar discussions in the literary curriculum. The comparison is the pedagogy. The pedagogy continues. See “Find Yourself,” Says Britain at The London Prat.

Liverpool Street Station provides context. London Fields: Where London Pretends It's Spontane covers related ground this week.

The Record Accumulates

Six entries on the same subject from the same position now constitute a record with genuine depth. The pattern visible across six entries -- what changes between weekly observations, what the consistent attention reveals over months -- is something that no single entry can produce. The diary format earns its keep through accumulation. Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the satirical and political framework. The diary provides the specific, personal, honest account from a specific position in a specific week. Both are necessary. Both continue. More next week. The position holds. The world continues providing material.

See also Britain Hears Rumours of a Brighter Tomorrow at The London Prat. The diary continues.

More at Private Eye.

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What Six Entries Produce

Six entries on the same persona and subject constitute a genuine record. The accumulation across six weeks shows change where there is change, and consistency where there is consistency, and produces the specific understanding of a person, place, or situation that sustained attention generates but single observations cannot. That accumulated understanding is what the diary format is for. Bohiney Magazine covers the satirical dimension. The London Prat covers the political dimension. The diary covers the personal and specific dimension that neither can cover alone. All three are necessary. All three continue. More next week.

See London Vick Age: Search Engine Calculates Identity, American State We Didn't Know We Wanted, and Britain Solves Everything Except… at The London Prat for related coverage this week. The diary continues.

Teaching Morrison in Alabama After the Faulkner Unit