Your essays should be a minimum of 4 pages, employ at least two scholarly sources, and employ standard MLA formatting guidelines. Due Date: Sunday, November 7th, 11:59 p.m. Select one of the following topics: 1. How can Joan Didion’s Play It As It Lays be read as a critique of American materialism and celebrity culture? 2. In what ways might we see Maria Wyeth as an Existential Heroine? 3. Analyze the complex representations of sex and desire we are provided with in Didion’s Play It As It Lays and Toni Morrison’s Sula? 4. How would you describe the America we are presented with in Sula? What are its central qualities, strengths, and/or pathologies? 5. How does Sula meaningfully explore the complex relationships between female friends and between mothers and daughters? 6. How would you describe the America we are presented with in Allen Ginsberg’s poems? What are its central qualities, strengths, and/or pathologies? 7. In what ways does mythology and folklore figure into Ginsberg’s poetry and Morrison’s novel? 8. What is the central theme of N. Scott Momaday’s The Way to Rainy Mountain? 9. What is the relationship between past and present in The Way to Rainy Mountain? 10. Create your own topic. (If you decide to do this, just make sure to discuss your proposed topic with me before you begin.)Show more
