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To Read: Rilke, (all poems)
Neruda, “Tonight I Can Write” and “I’m Explaining a Few Things”
Achebe, “Chike’s School Days”
Mahfouz, “Zaabalawi”
The four authors for this week put particular significance into certain words or images.
1. Using assigned texts from at least three of the four authors for this week, what are particular words or images that stand out in the various poems or stories? 2. Why do those words or images stand out? 3. Do they represent something more than what they are (function as symbols) or do they simply draw attention to a particular idea or moment? 4. In reflecting on the examples you discuss, are any of them relevant to how we may use words or imagery in our lives today?
(Each file includes the article and its author's biographical information.)
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The author, Sifuentes, writes about how art is stripped of its content, misinterpreted
and mishandled due to personal impositions. Sifuentes cites this as craft colonization which is
where individuals assert their cultural hierarchies, histories, and values on other people's craft
or artwork (Sifuentes, n.d). The author detests craft colonization and writes several steps to
help in the decolonization of the imposing discourse that craft is built upon.
Sifuentes categorizes the steps in two phases; the first phase is a rupture. Rupture
involves rejecting and breaking any signs and symptoms of cultural colonization and
avoiding discriminative practices. The phase comprises of; avoid contextualization of other
people's craft using individual histories as it makes their historie...
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