Essay 1 Assignment: Literary Analysis of Course Texts

Essay 1 Assignment Due: Mar. 6th, 11:55pm (via Moodle) Peer Workshop: in class, Feb. 28'
General Requirements: -have original and interesting ideas -provide dear expression -produce a minimum of 4 pages of writing -use 12-point Times New Roman font, double-spaced -useMLA format and Works Cited page (cite all your sources) -reference at least one academic resource (journal article or book) that you have found on your own -perform a literary analysis of one/two of our course texts (analysis is always about the search for meaning) which will lead to what you interpret to be its main statement (this will be your thesis) -keep in mind that your thesis will be your answer to all the questions from the assigned essay topic you have selected -assume that the reader of your essay is familiar with the literature you are analyzing, but do not assume that this reader is familiar with your research -use thepresent tense when discussing the content of a text; use the past tense when discussing historical events

Your essay must quote and cite T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of 3. Alfred Prutro ck." Y O I1T tinning Poetry Requirement: ' reference to Eliot must be brief—you are not analyzing his entire poem, but briefly me  it in your analysis of one of the texts from the following essay topics. writing is largely about making different texts, ideas, and details fit together into some original and meaningful way. This poetry requirement is intended to increase the originality and meaningfulness of your writing. 1) Research* "postcolonialisrn," then use this research to explain the various features of Tomson Highway's The Rez Sisters (this research must not reference Highway's play). Essay Topics: How is postcolonialism central to the argument Highway is making? 2) Research* "feminism," then use this research to explain the various features of Tomson How is Highway's The Rez Sisters (this research must not reference Highway's play). feminism central to the argument Highway is making? 3) Tomson Highway's The Rez Sisters describes the "Trickster" character of Nanabush in the following way: "Essentially a comic, clownish sort of character, he teaches us about the nature and the meaning of existence on the planet Earth" (516). Using some of the scenes where Nanabush appears, explain some of the scenes where he does not appear and answer this question: What does The Rez Sisters teach "us about the nature and the meaning of existence on the planet Earth"? 4) Select two of the short stories we have covered in the first half of the course (Williams' "The Use of Force," Vanderhaeghe's "Cages," and Carter's "The Company of