Tasks:
Let’s play pretend! Imagine that the United Nations is sponsoring the making of a film that showcases the relationship between the individual and a larger community (like the nation, ethnic group, etc.). They are soliciting recommendations, and you are eager to send them a letter arguing for why either Fox Girl or The Brief, Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao should be made into a film. You are asked to use Butler’s ideas from her chapter “Violence, Mourning, Politics” as a lens to focus your argument.
Purpose:
As Judith Butler writes in the chapter “Violence, Mourning, Politics,” “It is not as if the ‘I’ exists independently over here and then simply loses a ‘you’ over there, especially if the attachment to ‘you’ is part of what composes who ‘I’ am” (22). I am interested in seeing how you connect your own interpretation of an “I” (as you identify individual needs in the novel) to the “you” (areas of concern in the nation and/or globe). While you do not have to necessarily perform zeal for film per se, I do want to see authentic engagement in how the adaptation of a novel could be fleshed out.
IMPORTANT Writer must use the following four sources in the essay.
1.Violence, Mourning, Politics, By Judith Butler (This is the theoretical text that should be used as a lease and reference.)
- Chicana/o and Latina/o Fiction by Yice Irizarry.
- Migration, cultural bereavement and cultural identity, by Dinesh Bhugra and Matthew A Becker.
- Blurred Borders: Transnational Migration between the Hispanic Caribbean and the United States, by Jorge Duany.