Research Ideas mentioned from last night's presentations:
1. Comparative analysis of bestsellers of the era: Maltese Falcon versus The Good Earth versus Gone With the Wind--especially the idea of people desiring to read about how farming families in other times and places also suffered and endured
2. Compare the accounts of Floridian squatters to the depiction of life in Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
3. Compare depictions of interracial relationships (Shayla's Alabama account) with published accounts of the era
4. Compare accounts of sailors (Steve's NYCity) with published accounts such as O'Neill's The Hairy Ape
5. Compare the accounts of taxi strikes with Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty
6. Continue with research into material culture of underclass women in GD e.g. work life as practical nurses, laundry, cleaning, prostitution etc. even Nikki's account of AA women in a NYC "slave market"
7. Consider depictions of elders working in the Life Histories such as Nicole saw and compare to Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
8. Jeff had a good observation about women's lack of voice in the Wisconsin narratives, when they told accounts of male relatives versus their own lives
I may post further after I read your "Response Papers" --cmperry
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Hello all.
ReplyDeleteJust mentioning that I heard a superb documentary on MPR yesterday while riding home from school. It was made way back in 1992, but you would still find it useful considering our course's concerns.
It is called No Jews Allowed, and it is all about anti-Semitism and the experiences of Jews in Minneapolis in the 1930's and 40's. I was astonished by what it taught me, and the interviews were human and very colorful.
An MPR editor wrote me and said you could hear it at this URL.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/01/21/midday3/