Césaire, Walcott and Henri Christophe
[In the Arts One group in which I’m teaching, this week we read two plays about King Henri Christophe of Haiti, one by Aimé Césaire called The Tragedy of King Christophe (mid 1960s) and one by Derek Walcott called King Christophe (1949)]. In class today I had planned to have us talk about the […] Continue reading →
Ruins or Stones: What are they really?
So, being the last week and all, I managed to forget about this blog post. And now, at 2:32am, lying in bed, I remembered! So here we go! This week we read two plays, both regarding the Haitian revolution. This … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Get out of Cape Cod
Some thoughts for the end of the term. One aspect of reading the Walcott that I really enjoyed was being able to read into details and word choices again after spending most of the term studying form and argument. (In continuation of my post on Rousseau – it’s not philosophy!!) What made the property of […] Continue reading →