October 30, 2014 - 12:32
So, in writing down notes on what I'd potentially want to talk about in class, I thought I'd also just throw some things out that someone may want to run with (and I suppose anyone else can feel free to add on in any way to these relatively unformed thoughts):
- gender (though we start to have this conversation with the feminism discussion)
- immigration (though with my very simplistic post on diaspora, this conversation may also be covered)
- language, bi/multilingualism in forming an identity (some ideas below)
- Imefelu worried that Igbo will become a language of anger to Dike
- various microaggressions because of accents
- words/dialects taking on different meanings
- education (some ideas below)
- ndifrank pointed out in our disability class yesterday that education can mean so many different things. How does education create an identity?
- Education is a common theme in the book, partically because it follows two people who have the privilege of going to college first in Nigeria and then elsewhere. How does this change their identities?
- How is education take forms in other ways, such as with the blog postings that Ifemelu makes?
- Something interesting that might enrich this conversation, maybe not - an interview with Adichie via NPR: "I really love the American liberal arts college education system and the way you can take classes in philosophy, political science and communications. I was thrilled [as an undergraduate]. I don't think I quite had a plan. I did think I would go back home, which in many ways I have, because I have a life in both places. But I didn't really have a firm idea of what I would do with it."