[Xmca-l] Re: Identity through "experiential texts": Poems and Works of Art??

[R.J.S.Parsons]

What about "Olympia" where the courtesan refuses to accept the given 
identity by staring straight back at you.

And you could add Cézanne's copy, which he called "A modern Olympia" - 
you could work with why Cézanne called his "modern". The original 
already was modern, because of the courtesan's gaze (I remain puzzled by 
why Cézanne chose to distinguish his by calling it modern). The Cézanne 
also plays with identity by including the gentleman voyeur in the 
painting, whereas in the original the voyeur is the viewer. So it plays 
not only with identities within the painting, but with your identity too.

Rob

On 29/07/2016 17:20, David H Kirshner wrote:
> My thanks for the many great suggestions of movies and academic works!
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> I would also welcome suggestions of poems and works of graphic art that seem to you to problematize the notion of identity.
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> You're welcome to send suggestions off-line, and I'll compile and share with XMCA.
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> David
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> I'm preparing to teach a capstone graduate course for teachers-to-be that includes a focus on identity.
> The major assignment is a Personal Literacy Portfolio in which students compile, organize, and discuss artifacts of their past in exploration of their identity. The rationale is that this self-awareness of positioning facilitates engagement with students of diverse cultural locations.
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> I'm asking for suggestions of course resources.
> Rather than a single course reader, I'm looking for "experiential texts"-that is creative products in any medium that can help perturb essentialist ideas of core identity in favor of a more complex, poststructural view of identity as multiple and fragmented. Media can include academic writing in psychology, sociology, philosophy; short stories; poetry; film; works of art, etc.
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> If you'd like to email me off-line (dkirsh@lsu.edu<mailto:dkirsh@lsu.edu>), I'll send a compilation of all suggestions to XMCA.
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> Below is a list of some experiential texts I'm already considering.
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> David
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> Walkerdine, V. (1990). Chapter 1: Sex, power and pedagogy. In V. Walkerdine (Ed.), Schoolgirl fictions(pp. 3-15). London: Verso. Reprinted from Screen Education, 38, 14-24, 1981.
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> PBS Video: http://www.pbs.org/program/nine-months-that-made-you/
> 9 Months That Made You   -  How a person's individuality is developed, including their sexuality
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> Documentary on the life of a child kept without language for 13 years.
> https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/14/genie-feral-child-los-angeles-researchers
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjZolHCrC8E
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> Movie: Enemy  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_(2013_film)
> The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal as two men who are physically identical, but different in terms of personality.
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> Gee, J. P. (2001). Identity as an analytic lens for research in education. In W. G. Secada (Ed.), Review of Research in Education, 25 (pp. 3-56). Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association. [identity = kind of person one is recognized as being]
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> Stremmel, A., Burns, J., Nganga, C., & Bertolini, K. (2015). Countering the essentialized discourse of teacher education. Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 36(2), 156-174. [discussed in http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=20275]
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