Annotated Bibliography #5 and Paper #1

Dear All,

For this week, please read “A Farewell Salute to Ousmane Sembene” in your photocopied packet, and Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s short chapter “The Politics of Language in African Literature” in Decolonising the Mind. (We won’t read “Art at the Crossroads: Senegalese Artists Since the 1960s,” so don’t worry about it, even though it appears on the syllabus.) You are also required to watch Ousmane Sembene’s film Black Girl (1966). You will have to watch this video at the library; please make time in your schedule, and be aware that many of you will be needing to view it and do not check it out.

For Annotated Bibliography #5, you will not need to write an observation paragraph. Simply write an inference paragraph on the film Black Girl. You should take into account all of our readings and viewings to date as you write this. What really stands out to you?

Also, this week, you need to begin writing Paper #1: Select and complete one of the following: A. Identify and discuss how African and African American photography is both a product of and responds to historical events and movements (3 pages, informal, free-write, no citations needed). B. Alternatively, you may expand any one of your already completed annotated bibliographies into a three page free-write. I expect you to do additional research on the photograph/photographer, etc..., should you select this option.

Annotated Bibliography #5 is due posted on blog by midnight Monday Oct 12. Respond to a classmate’s blog entry at some time this week, and email Paper #1 to me by midnight Friday Oct. 16.