blog presentations

You should prepare a 5-7 minute presentation (the buzzer--err, bizzer?--will ring at 7 minutes and you'll be cut off) on your blogging experience over the last 16 or so weeks. This is your time to reflect on what blogging--self-narrating, self-creating, self-editing--has meant for you. I would like you to focus on one or two key moments that reveal something important/interesting/engaging about your process. How has the work of blogging shaped the way you read published life writing? How has the work of blogging changed the way you live your life (Gillian's inquiry)? Is it something you can imagine continuing? Why or why not? What has been your experience of reading other blogs and engaging in a textual community online? How have your graphic strategies corresponded to your textual ones?

These are questions to get you started. You could approach this presentation from any number of angles. The goal is for you to reflect critically on the work you've been doing--and we'll all been observing--over the semester. I'd love to hear larger claims about how blogging both challenges and perhaps consolidates a study of the history of women's life-writing....

Good luck and have fun with this.

respond to a response

Prepare a one-paragraph response to Sidonie Smith's characterization of Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior. Smith called it "an autobiography about women's autobiography." What do you think about this? If it is, in fact, an autobiography about autobiography, what does it tell us about the genre? Choose one moment in the text and offer a close reading that supports your claims.