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Eng 3140: Fall 2013 Post-Colonial Literature: Course Description, Khani Begum
Eng 3140: Fall 2013 Post-Colonial Literature: Course Description, Khani Begum
Student Projects from Dr. Begum's Literature and Film Courses
A course description for Dr. Khani Begum's ENG 3140 Post-Colonial Literature course.
Eng 3140: The Post-Colonial Nature Of Disney: The Ruining Of A Childhood, Madilyn Herrholtz, Alicia Wodarski, Sarah Stamm, Ashley Shelton, Kelsey Montgomery
Eng 3140: The Post-Colonial Nature Of Disney: The Ruining Of A Childhood, Madilyn Herrholtz, Alicia Wodarski, Sarah Stamm, Ashley Shelton, Kelsey Montgomery
Student Projects from Dr. Begum's Literature and Film Courses
"Savages, savages!" scream the English colonizers at the Native Americans in the Disney film, Pocahontas. This quote exemplifies the postcolonial tensions that are present in several of Disney's movies. However, the characters in Disney movies tend to be romanticized. Thus, we judged that Disney's children's characters were the perfect basis for our Post-Colonial video. The princesses we chose to look at were Ariel (and Ursula), Jasmine, Pocahontas, Cinderella, and Rapunzel (with focus on Mother Gothel). Each of these princesses had their own cultures and were oppressed by a colonizer, either literally or figuratively. Yet, the classic Disney movies glossed over …
Eng 3140: The Colonization Of The Ipthins, Milan Bows, Michael Gercak, Thomas Hoffman, Allyson Parker
Eng 3140: The Colonization Of The Ipthins, Milan Bows, Michael Gercak, Thomas Hoffman, Allyson Parker
Student Projects from Dr. Begum's Literature and Film Courses
Over the course of the semester, we have read many texts that would have been useful one way or another in our film project. We selected five texts to help us develop the plot of our film: Zahra 's Paradise, Toward the African Revolution, Tulip in the Desert, Pyongyang, and Maskarade from Mixed Company. Combining the themes of these works with the traditional hopeful tones of classic Doctor Who episodes, we were able to blend them all together into one believable-though fictitious-universe. When the Doctor arrives to the planet the Humans have colonized, he instantly realizes that something is a …