Chaz's Final Blogg post

The group presentations were really good this year. I have had many other classes with group projects and presentations but I didn’t learn near as much. The most valuable thing to me was the analytical critique in different types of criticism. It really helped seeing the mechanics of each story unfold for a specific type of critique. The two that I found the most interesting were Post Colonialism and Queer Theory.

Post Colonialism is different view on events historically. We are always looking at information from the point of view of the colonizer and rarely the colonized. Post Colonialism isn’t made up of just one element but encompasses many from English literature from many different countries. “Aria” by Richard Rodriguez was used to describe this type of Theory. I liked the term The “Other,” which was very poetic in  of its self. We had orientalism, that unveiled European stereotypes that negatively depict Asians. The term of unhomeliness really stood out as well. There are many foreigners that feel as though they are caught in this principle.

The Queer Theory is very relevant in today’s society. The term queer is becoming this word that encompasses all things that may be termed as homosexual. Broke Back Mountain was a perfect example of this. The story shows how many become uneasy at the thought of a queer relationship. Our group did New Historicism, which could focus on certain events in history that may have been very important in the queer society. All in all this was a great class. I learned the most out of this English class than all of the one’s combined to this point.