Analyze one of the mother- daughter relationships from “The Smile of a Mountain Witch”
Analyze one of the mother- daughter relationships from “The Smile of a Mountain Witch” or Breasts and Eggs. Do you think this relationship reflects a hegemonic understanding of Motherhood? How might Ueno Chizuko’s discussion of Mothers help us to interpret this mother-daughter relationship?
How does the mountain witch’s relationship to speech (voice) change throughout the story? How does society (hegemonic social systems) shape whose voices are heard and whose are silenced? Do you think literature can give voice to traditionally marginalized persons?
How does Breasts and Eggs represent the body? How does it complicate hegemonic ideologies about gender as a “natural” reflection of sex? How do the characters’ lived experiences from their bodies differ from hegemonic discourses about the female sex (what society teaches us about being a woman)
https://we.tl/t-HAuMusBxJG (LTEA 132 readings)
https://we.tl/t-gkYWV3YQAr (HIEU 148 readings and lecture)
#2. HIEU 148 Reading Reflection (due Saturday, July 23rd at 11:59pm.)
One of the many stereotypes related to the history of Europe (especially among Americans) is that Eastern Europe under communist rule was completely oblivious to the happenings and trends in the Western world. However, that was not the case. Despite heavy censorship and restriction of civil liberies, people (especially youth) were very creative in constructing their own subcultures inspired by foreign cultural influences. These groups were sometimes anti-establishment, but many also used these countercultures to reinforce their national identity and pride by adding these Western components.
So, Western popular culture did find ways to infiltrate into Eastern Europe and it was in many ways a form of dissent and rebellion, but also an instrument of preserving the existing national identity. For this week, you can choose to reflect on one of the two articles:
Choose ONE article and answer these questions:
1) What did music (if you are reading Bahry’s piece on Ukraine) or sport fandom (if you are reading Zeller’s piece on Russian soccer fans) mean for these nations or groups and their identity? Why was it important for them to create and perform rock music or for the soccer fans to express their fandom through Western performative acts?
- Please post your reflection on these questions and reply to at least one of your peers’ posts. Your main post is due by the end of the day on Saturday and the reply by the end of the day on Sunday each week. See further instructions in the syllabus.
- In order to receive an A-level grade, please make sure your peer response is as engaging and substantive as your main post. Your posts/replies should be constructive and respectful. Make sure you address all questions in your peer reply unless stated otherwise.
- Your answer (post and reply combined) should be within the 400-500 word range. You are more than welcome to write more if you feel inspired.
#3. HIEU 148 Discussion Board (due Sunday, July 24th at 11:59pm.)
One of the themes we are discussing this week is the rise of global protest culture in the 1960s as a form of social activism. With that in mind, think about these questions:
Throughout your lifetime, how successful or unsuccessful have protests been in bringing up any relevant changes in the community where you live now or where you come from and why (1 pt)? Do you think violence during protests has been an effective means to bring about the desired change and why? (1 pt).
After your main post, please react/reply to one of your peers’ posts (1 pt). There is no length limit to either the main post or reply, but bear in mind you will earn points by showing some good faith effort and thoughtfulness in your post and reply.
Thank you for your hard work and engagement with our course materials! I really appreciate your opinions and input.
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P.S. Here is a link to see some interesting street art from Paris protests in 1968 at your own convenience. Visual culture has been a huge component for the memory and legacy of modern protests.
https://www.riotmaterial.com/walls-speak-art-revolution-may-68/ (Links to an external site.)
Peer’s post:
Until after high school, I never truly made an effort to learn about social activism much less even care about it, so unfortunately, I was pretty uneducated on that front. but this gives me a great comparison of how these protests, when turned violent, affect an unbothered citizen versus a participating protester. I want to think about the first protest that I witnessed in my community, it goes back to my middle school and high school teachers protesting for fair pay. As a student who sees these teachers every day, I felt a sense of sympathy for them but not much else, as I was a child. But even as a child I was able to witness the slight differences that this caused in my every day life. Driving in and out of school I would see teachers lining up the streets with signs and posters, with so much passion on their faces for what they believed us correct. During school some teachers wouldn’t show up as a sign of protest and other chose to educate students on the matter. All these small things, I think, allowed the community to see how much change is needed, yet still allows for the citizens to go about their lives in peace. But one day, a bomb threat was called into the school forcing the school to be evacuated and moving all personnel to a park near by. This is the first time this issue really opened my eyes to how this “passion” can turn to anger and violence. As an outsider, with no real feelings towards the matter, I was still affected, harmed, and slightly changed by what had happened. And later in my life, during Covid season, there were many protests about Black Lives Matter as well as the fight against police brutality. At this point I was much more educated on these matters and even took a side, attending some of these marches. I recall marches starting off very peacefully, yet somewhere through the process, both sides, protesters and police, got violent. Call these violent actions resulted in the destruction of the streets as well as harm against citizens protesting. I remember visiting the downtown area a couple days after one such violent protest and seeing the destruction in the streets. Stores have been broken into, things have been lit on fire, and there was graffiti everywhere. It was saddening to see a place I used to roam with my loved ones so ruined in shambles because of an unnecessary violence. Both of these accounts, I was able to conclude that most of the time the violence does not help. It only makes both sides more aggravated and waste everyone’s time. I believe communication and compromise is a great path to happiness and peace.
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