Fill in the blank!

[lollardfish]

Readings - The Self: From Antiquity to You.

• St. Augustine - Confessions
• Abelard and Heloise - Letters
• ______________________________???
• Ralph Ellison - The Invisible Man
• John McCain/Barak Obama - their autobiographies

I have some thoughts, but I want yours!

Comments

[new-kid16.livejournal.com]

All my suggestions would be for more medieval folks, which I doubt would be very helpful. Although someone like Frederick Douglass or Harriot Jacobs might be useful, for making the jump from Europe to the US? Sounds like a cool class - I've always wanted to teach one like that! (Though mine would have been populated almost exclusively by crazy medieval people, so it would have had much less widespread appeal...)

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

This class has a mandated inclusion of Ellison in our "common text" seminar series (the Freshmen read Ellison). So I've been sort of stretching from that. We'll do a lot of fun stuff - second life, facebook, conversion narratives. Just searching for "confessions" on amazon.com is fun.