Jon Beasley-Murray

Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now

Video and Powerpoint of lecture by Jon Beasley-Murray for the “Remake/Remodel” theme; also video and Prezi by Derek Gladwin for the “Repetition Compulsion” theme

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Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

Video and Powerpoint of lecture by Jon Beasley-Murray for the “Remake/Remodel” theme

Posted in Jon Beasley-Murray, lecture, powerpoint, Remake/Remodel, Repetition Compulsion, Rob Crawford, video | Tagged with Achebe, Africa, anthropology, C20th, colonialism, Conrad, culture, difference, history, Identity, literature, novel, repetition

Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

Video and Powerpoint of lecture by Jon Beasley-Murray for the “Remake/Remodel” theme

Posted in Jon Beasley-Murray, lecture, powerpoint, Remake/Remodel | Tagged with Algeria, C20th, Caribbean, Fanon, France, Freud, hybridity, Lacan, Martinique, philosophy, postcolonialism, psychoanalysis, psychology

Antigone

It is not always entirely clear who (if anyone) or what is the tragic hero(ine) in Sophocles’s Antigone, or what exactly is the nature of their tragedy. One might have thought that the tragic figure was the eponymous Antigone herself, … Continue reading →Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, Jon Beasley-Murray, lb5-2-2013 | Tagged with drama, literature, posthegemony, Sophocles, teaching