Hard Times & Imagined Communities
- Due Mar 14, 2017 by 12pm
- Points 10
- Submitting a discussion post
- Available after Mar 7, 2017 at 12pm
Today, we discussed Benedict Anderson's "imagined communities" as well as what's missing in those communities. You have already delved into this concept with the Hard Times serial in the previous post. For this post, feel free to cut and paste that writing into this post to begin. Add to your discussion for this post about who's not represented in this "imagined community" of Hard Times and how it impacts the narrative or plot of one particular chapter or one issue in this serialized novel. (When referring to an individual blue-backed serial, refer to it by issue number.)
The three secondary sources from our March 7 discussion provide insight into the location for communal reading (coffeehouses), the relationship between authors and publishers, and a reading class emboldened by the anthology. Discuss any one of these articles in the context of "imagined communities" in the particular serial number being discussed in this post.
If Robert Patten's article, "When is a Book Not a Book? Download When is a Book Not a Book?," relevant to your discussion, feel free to pull that voice into your response as well.
Word count: 600-900 words
You have a wide word count cushion for this post in case you find something interesting that you'd like to pursue. (For instance, the circus might become interesting or social control of women or representations of education.)
As always, stick to the formal voice (Writing Tips) and use MLA style for in-text citation.