Hi Everyone,
I hope everyone has had a chance to get a copy of our next selection: Tomson Highway's The Rez Sisters. It's a relatively short read (perfect for June) that I think everyone will enjoy. It follows a group of native women that decide to go on a roadtrip from their lives on the reserve to a large Bingo game in Toronto. Hilarity and family drama ensue. For some inspiration, I found a few links to share. They are posted below.
A painting entitled "Bingo Ladies" that may help you imagine the play:
http://www.bearclawgallery.com/Paintings.aspx?PaintingID=1885&PaintingImageID=2556
Another native author, Drew Hayden Taylor, writes about his feelings about the play The Rez Sisters:
http://www.drewhaydentaylor.com/articles/rezsisters.html
Some guiding questions and ideas regarding the play:
http://canlitguides.ca/guides/rez_sisters/0
Happy reading and see you all soon!
-Jackie
Monday, 10 June 2013
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Meeting Times and Proverbs
Hey Clubbers,
So our first meeting will be held tomorrow in rm. 405 at 3:00. Yes, we finally get to sit down and talk about this book! As a rule for those who are still reading, we will try to limit discussion to BEFORE the westerners appear in the book (if you haven't reached this point, you'll know it when you see it).
To move on to more blog related content, let's talk PROVERBS. Achebe describes conversation in village as a great art, filled with little proverbs (which are EVERYWHERE in the book. Here are two of my favs:
"A toad doesn't run in the daytime for nothing"
"A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which its mother puts into his palm"
What are some of your favourites? Write'em below!
So our first meeting will be held tomorrow in rm. 405 at 3:00. Yes, we finally get to sit down and talk about this book! As a rule for those who are still reading, we will try to limit discussion to BEFORE the westerners appear in the book (if you haven't reached this point, you'll know it when you see it).
To move on to more blog related content, let's talk PROVERBS. Achebe describes conversation in village as a great art, filled with little proverbs (which are EVERYWHERE in the book. Here are two of my favs:
"A toad doesn't run in the daytime for nothing"
"A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which its mother puts into his palm"
What are some of your favourites? Write'em below!
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Moving away from the Heart of Darkness
Quick announcement before we begin here; the school board will not be able to supply us the books, so through an intricate system of borrowing, buying, and other means, we will have to find the books ourselves. If you are will ing to lend your copy to someone else in the club after reading, please feel free to comment below.
Achebe was adamantly against Nigeria and African writing, or the continent itself, being subjegated or treated as something inferior. Here is his essay in which he systematically breaks down Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, considered to be a classic of Western Literature. You don't have to have read Conrad to enjoy this essay, and to give you a little more insight into our author. Let me know what you think!
Achebe was adamantly against Nigeria and African writing, or the continent itself, being subjegated or treated as something inferior. Here is his essay in which he systematically breaks down Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, considered to be a classic of Western Literature. You don't have to have read Conrad to enjoy this essay, and to give you a little more insight into our author. Let me know what you think!
Monday, 29 April 2013
We Begin!
Hi fellow CALC readers! We begin our monthly meetings here online, in my first feeble attempt at creating something electronically. If anyone has the know-how to make this a more viable site, please let me know and we can wrangle up something more multi-media conducive.
Feel free to post comments, and suggest links and other connected readings. To get us started, here is an article from The Guardian commenting on the passing of our first author, Chinua Achebe.
Also to get you in the right frame of mind, here is fellow Nigerian, and just awesome musician, Fela Kuti:
Feel free to post comments, and suggest links and other connected readings. To get us started, here is an article from The Guardian commenting on the passing of our first author, Chinua Achebe.
Also to get you in the right frame of mind, here is fellow Nigerian, and just awesome musician, Fela Kuti:
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