[Vwoolf] Woolf in Conversation

Tue Sep 20 17:32:46 EDT 2022

Dear Kristina,

So many options. Here are a few short texts that have worked well for me
recently:

Alice Walker, “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens”;

Stevie Smith, “Thoughts on the Person from Porlock”;

Jorge Luis Borges, “The Library of Babel”

Ama Ata Aidoo, from Our Sister Killjoy

Audre Lorde, “Poetry is not a Luxury”
Michel de Certeau, “Walking in the City”
Toni Morrison, *Sula*
Sara Ahmed, "Feminist Killjoys" in *The Promise of Happiness* (accessible
theory)

I didn't love Asali Solomon's *Days of Afrekete*
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a reworking of *Mrs. Dalloway *and it's short with some powerful
meditations on race and privilege--but it's very posh Philadelphia.

*The Oxford Handbook to Virginia Woolf
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lots of other ideas in chapters on Woolf's afterlives.

34. Modern Woolfian Fiction, *Roxana Robinson*
35. Magic Realism and Experimental Fiction, *Laura Mª Lojo-Rodríguez*
36. Narrative Futures of the Feminist Novel, *Tonya Krause*
37. Creative Non-fiction and Poetry, *Stacey D'Erasmo*
38. Virginia Woolf, Filmmaker, *Jacqueline Shin*

Might be a good moment to go back to Stephen Frears's film Sammy and Rosie
Get Laid (1987)?

Enjoy the class!

Anne

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*The Norton Critical Edition of *Mrs. Dalloway
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*The Oxford Handbook to Virginia Woolf
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 3:17 PM Pat Laurence via Vwoolf <
vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> Dear Kristina. . . Some suggestions for Conversation courses--both Woolf
> and the Victorians. Victorians/Moderns: juxtaposition of Anand-Kipling,
> Bronte-Rhys, Disraeli-Engels, McEwan-Woolf. It's a neat structure for
> bringing authors of different
> Dear Kristina...
> Some suggestions for Conversation courses--both Woolf and the Victorians.
> Victorians/Moderns: juxtaposition of Anand-Kipling, Bronte-Rhys,
> Disraeli-Engels, McEwan-Woolf. It's a neat structure for bringing authors
> of different cultures, countries, politics, history and periods into relief.
>
>
> Virginia Woolf and International Women Writers
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> This course will focus on the novels of Virginia Woolf in juxtaposition
> with short readings from international modernist  women writers: Ding Ling
> (China); Anita Desai and Sara Suleri (India/Pakistan);  Christa Wolfe
> (Germany); Amelia Kahane-Carmon (Israel); Gertrude Stein and Djuna
> Barnes(America/France), Natalie Sarraute (France) among others.  Woolf’s
> polemics, *A Room of One’s* *Own* and *Three Guineas,* will frame
> geopolitical and modernist issues such as women’s participation in
> education, work, fiction and government as well as decisions about war. *To
> the Lighthouse* will illuminate the domestic, “Angel in the House; *Mrs.
> Dalloway* will introduce issues of gender that will take flight in the
> fantasy of *Orlando*; the great narrative experiment of *The Waves* will
> join with other modernist experiments. The way in which Woolf “travels” to
> other countries will be framed by the theories of de Saussure, M.M.
> Bakhtin, Michel Foucault, Susan Stanford Friedman and James Clifford.
>
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>
> *English 793: Victorian Conversations*
>
> Syllabus
>
>      This course presents British Victorian texts in conversation with
> modern or contemporary works, sometimes from different cultures.
> Nineteenth-century preoccupations with virtue, duty, nation, colonialism,
> evolution, religion, race, class and gender are brought into relief in the
> twentieth century. One work answers another.
>
> Jan. 26th: Introduction
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> Feb. 2nd:  “Florence Nightingale” in *The Eminent Victorians*
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>                 Visit to the Darwin exhibit, Museum of Natural History
> (date to be arranged)
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> Feb. 9th:   Kipling, *Kim*, pp. 49-144 (ch.1-5)
>
>                  Edward Said: Introduction
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> Feb. 16th: Kipling, *Kim*, pp. 145-338
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>                 Benedict Anderson, “Census, Map, Museum”
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> Feb.23th:  Anand, *The Untouchable*, pp.9-92
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> March 2nd: Anand, *The Untouchable*, pp.93-157
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> March 9nd:  Charlotte Bronte, *Jane Eyre*
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>                     Short essay due (topics to be discussed)
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> March 16th: Bronte, *Jane Eyre*
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> March 23:  Jean Rhys, *Wide Sargasso Sea*, pp. 17-118
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> March 30:  Rhys, *Wide Sargasso Sea*, pp.119-190
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> April 6th:   Selected essays: Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf
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> April 12th-23rd: Spring Break
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> April 27th: Disraeli, *Sybil*
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>                   Engels, *The Condition of the Working Class in England*
> (excerpt)
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> May 4th: Disraeli, *Sybil*
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> May 11th: Ian McEwan, *Saturday*
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>                  Longer essay due (topics developed from and related to
> short oral reports)
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> May 17th: McEwan, *Saturday*
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> On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 2:27 PM Andrea Zemgulys via Vwoolf <
> vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dear Kristina, I haven’t read it yet, but a former student just let me
>> know of a book she is publishing that is “found Woolf poetry. ” I gather
>> that she composed new poems from favorite Woolf passages. Nazifa Islam,
>> Forlorn Light: ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍
>> Dear Kristina,
>>
>> I haven’t read it yet, but a former student just let me know of a book
>> she is publishing that is “found Woolf poetry.” I gather that she composed
>> new poems from favorite Woolf passages.
>>
>> *Nazifa Islam, Forlorn Light: “...published with a small UK publisher so
>> there hasn't been a lot of advertising for the collection, but *here
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.shearsman.com/store/Nazifa-Islam-Forlorn-Light-p362124177__;!!KGKeukY!39ZkxFsoltFWSS8qLos1wbFO8I9K5RUJqMfPptldUdJRaTmbtqrmtrmL6VJ78Zrmejq-NeAXd1f-vImR8OhJBJc$> is
>> the book's webpage on the Shearsman Books site and here's
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nazifaislam.com/forlorn-light__;!!KGKeukY!39ZkxFsoltFWSS8qLos1wbFO8I9K5RUJqMfPptldUdJRaTmbtqrmtrmL6VJ78Zrmejq-NeAXd1f-vImRTQCbvB0$> the
>> book's webpage on my own website, which is a bit more detailed."
>>
>> Maybe something from this book will work for you…or you could have your
>> students compose their own “found” poems — that might work very well for an
>> assignment!
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Andrea Zemgulys
>> Michigan, USA
>>
>>
>> On Sep 16, 2022, at 10:06 PM, Kristina Groover via Vwoolf <
>> vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Woolfians,
>>
>> I am developing an undergraduate course titled "Woolf in Conversation,"
>> and I would love to solicit your ideas.   I am particularly interested in
>> having students read Woolf's work alongside contemporary women writers and
>> writers of color.  Please share your ideas about writers and texts that
>> you've found especially engaging when read in conversation with Woolf,
>> especially with an undergraduate class in mind.  Many thanks!
>>
>> Kristina Groover
>> --
>> Kristina K. Groover
>> Professor of English
>> Appalachian State University
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>>
>> "Your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else.
>> If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else."
>> -- Toni Morrison
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