: a rope of sand

Sorry about the criticism guys, seems like i've been confronted on my stance as a negative critic a fair few times on the course of this weekend, unfortunately my dislike for the current state of academia has left me a bitter cynic more readily criticizing than aiding any betterment. that said I'd like to propose the following as a sequence of information / outline.

slide 1: Wide Sargasso Sea: a treatise on hybridity
(i see the sub-title floating in on a bed of pixels peering at a hollow moon, hollowed by the cryings of despondent janitors clad in blue coveralls, forever dancing with wooden brooms, turned a disgusting brown from grubby hands)


fade to a blank screen, which holds for 30 seconds. we all stand dead-pan glaring at the audience. 


screen returns with a sunset behind us, a black-hawk helicopter off in the distance growing bigger as it gains in distance, exploding just before it fills the field of vision.

slide 2: Introduction: concept of hybridity (textbook definition & Bhaba's hybridity)

slide 3: Introduction: The novel & author

slide 4: Introduction: Our Modus Operandi. Hybridity broken into Characters & Setting. Characters not being simply the individual persons in the novel but all persons (further explained later in this rigmarole of mine) and setting being the instances of hybridity of place, the zeitgeist if you will.

if we can work in the phrase haecceity of the zeitgest anywhere into the presentation i'd be delighted. it is essentially a nonsense phrase which basically means the thingness of the placeness, but for some reason given the current state of academics it is heralded as a deep and meaningful saying much like the word zen

slide 5: characters ie the effects of hybridity upon persons. here we can talk about racial hybridity,
linguistic hybridity, cultural hybridity (this being in reference specifically to things people do, manners, or more along the lines of the stipulates for Aristotle's moral virtues,  can't think of the appropriate term) and possibly literary hybridity (though i must confess i am unable to see the demarcation between linguistic and literary, not to be misread, the difference between the terms i understand, with the literary being the written and the linguistic being the spoken, but do we have any examples in which the literary is referenced in the book itself? on second thought we can add the litterary hybridity at the end as a little whammy, as we talk about the book itself being a literary hybridity) so, just racial, linguistic, and (until further betterment of terms) Cultural

subsections: individual characters and how they exemplify hybridity. we can also talk about the conflict that arises from hybridity of the individual characters in this section, internal struggles, inability to find a place (Aly's quote, Martyna's examples etc)

slide 6: settings, moments of hybridity in the novels setting.

subsections: architecture (english houses without chimneys, appalling recreations of english houses alys example). the forest with old cut paths and remnants of previous settlements.  We can also talk about the culture as it relate to the zeitgeist of the place and of course the hybrid foods. there's also the hybridity in comparison that occurs as places are spoken about in the manner in which they differ or are like european places (Paris & London being forever referenced)

slide 7: literary hybridity, the novel itself being a hybrid

slide 8: Concluding remarks, summation of all the ideas as presented. a narrative perhaps to relax the wondering minds in which we talk about a young man known by many as 50cent, upon seeing his grandmother (suffering from crippling arthritis mind you) knitting him a pair of socks, exclaims "gee, you knit!"


Hope it is clear that the demarcation / notation "slide" does not indicate singular powerpoint slides but rather more appropriately section markers.


Also it seems unavoidable that we use a good  deal of text in the presentation, predominantly because what we are dealing with remains the literary work, while we might include images it seems in terms of remaining true to the novel and not falling under the lure of speaking to the movie, it would behoove us to augment our discourse predominantly with text. not to worry i am of the belief that text can certainly be made more appealing than the most rambunctious of images. 


exit stage right in a straight line formation, all mounted on tiny tricycles (I'm of the belief that we can steal these from little kids in fenced neighborhoods) 
Jjust in case anyone was wondering what the rope of sand thing is, it's a clone high reference, makes me chuckle each time i write it, and i've been using it for everything professional or academic for the past couple of weeks without anyone actually calling me on it.


Thoughts and Suggestions?