FINAL RESEARCH ESSAY ASSIGNMENT
Page length 10-12 pages of a LITERARY ARGUMENT
Sources: 3-5 sources (not including the work you’ll be discussing)
For this assignment, choose a topic based on ONE of the texts we’ve read in class. You can write on Oslo, Aria da Capo; No Name in the Street; The Red Parts; American Sonnets; American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin; Women, Race, and Class; Are Prisons Obsolete; or Eileen. Choose ONE, and craft a literary argument based on a topic related to that text. A literary argument states a position that is debatable and your essay tries to change the reader’s mind about it.
Some possible topics:
- How do we understand success/failure in relation to the peace process in Oslo?
- What role does World War I, specifically, play in Millay’s Aria da Capo?
- What is the significance of privilege in Baldwin’s No Name in the Street?
- How does gender intersect with race in Wanda Coleman’s American Sonnets?
- How does gender intersect with race in Terrance Hayes’ American Sonnets?
- What links does Angela Davis make between black women and a practice and mission of resistance in Women, Race, and Class?
- Why does Angela Davis object to the connection often made in both popular and academic representations of prisons and prisoners between crime and punishment Are Prisons Obsolete?
- What is the significance of shame in Ottessa Moshfegh’s Eileen?
FINAL RESEARCH ESSAY ASSIGNMENTPage length 10-12 pages of a LITERARY ARGUMENTSources: 3-5 sources (not including the work you’ll be discussing)For this assignment, choose a topic based on ONE of the texts we’ve read in class. You can write on Oslo, ...
