Authorship in a Remix Society and Building a Webpage about Beloved

Greetings.

In class, we will be discussing the practices and theories associated with scrapbooking and remixing research projects.  You are also assigned to read The Evolution of Authorship in a Remix Society.   You may refer to the information in this article when answering the questions below. 

Scrapbooking

What is scrapbooking?  How long has humanity engaged in the process of scrapbooking?
Are practices associated with scrapbooking present or invisible in your academic studies and research projects?  

Remix 
What is remixing?  How long has humanity engaged in the process of remixing? When did remixing become popular?

Do you think remix theories and popular technology influence or improve your understanding Beloved and your research? If so, how? If not, why?

from - http://boingboing.net/2012/02/26/the-everything-is-a-remix-theo.html

After viewing the video,  please consider how theories of scrapbooking and remix may intersect in your own research.

Theories associated with memory, scrapbooking and remix will be very important aspects of this course.  You may want to consider how those theories my be evident in your researched based webpage.

Your truly, 

Dr. Hill

What is scrapbooking?  How long has humanity engaged in the creative process of scrapbooking?
Are practices associated with scrapbooking present or invisible in your studies and research projects? How do you envision using remix theory when constructing your research based webpage.

The Impact of Gender and Intersectional Identity in Slave Communities - Beloved

Study the Masters by Lucille Clifton

like my aunt timmie.

it was her iron,

or one like hers,

that smoothed the sheets

the master poet slept on.

home or hotel, what matters is

he lay himself down on her handiwork

and dreamed. she dreamed too, words;

some cherokee, some masai and some

huge and particular as hope.

if you had heard her

chanting as she ironed

you would understand form and line

and discipline and order and

america.   

-  Callaloo 22.1 (1999) 54

Greetings, Class. 

In Beloved, we are exploring the ways gender and intersectional identity may have impacted the experiences of the characters, former enslaved people.  This poem by Lucille Clifton may help us to unpack some of the complexities associated with gender in slave communities.  

Consider how gender (male or female) and intersectional identity (black/African American and female) impacted the individual experiences of the characters because they were people that once lived in  enslaved communities.  

How are Paul D's memories of slavery different from Sethe's or Ella's?  How might the traumas associated with slavery impact the ways certain communities or individuals remember America and negotiate 'freedoms'?    

You may include examples from Beloved.  Feel free to include links and additional resources as examples. 

Dr. Hill