HU CONTEMPORARY NORTH AMERICAN NOVELS by İlayda Aydın https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois en-us 2022-05-08 08:39:13 UTC 2022-05-10 15:38:34 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4da.png ABOUT THE AUTHOR contemporarynovels https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2174279235 Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 

  • was born in 1967 and grew up in Durham, North Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia. 
  • is a fiction writer, poet, and essayist. 
  • author of five poetry collections
  • her topics: western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities, African-American history, integrational trauma, various African-American tradition, race, religion, family and culture
  • she also publishes essays and poems in different journals 
  • The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois is her first novel and was a New York Times bestseller
  • associate professor of English at Univerity of Oklahoma, teaching creative writing an literature 


]]> 2022-05-08 08:42:23 UTC https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2174279235 Associations contemporarynovels https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2174280247 **Please put your answers in the comment. ]]> 2022-05-08 08:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2174280247 ABOUT THE NOVEL contemporarynovels https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2174281320
  • historical fiction 
  • structured/divided with quotes by W.E.B du Bois (one before every new chapter), aka love songs
  • discusses Black slavery, indian genocide as trauma and it’s effects on contemporary American lives (generational trauma) 


    • tells the story of one American family spanning several generations, dating back to colonial slave trade
    • confrontation with family history and culture while also complying to the norm (double consciousness)
    • Ailey is the main protagonist who has to come to terms with her identity
    • spends her summers in a small Georgian town (Chicasetta) where her family has lived since their ancestors were brought to the US as slaves from Africa
    • her maternal ancestry is in focus 



    ]]>     2022-05-08 08:47:37 UTC https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2174281320     Discussion Questions https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2174286815 1. How does settler colonialism continue to shape perceptions of novels/ storytelling e. g. in regard to spirituality? 
    2. How does colorism affect the plot of the novel?
    3. Comment on the themes of ancestry in the novel. 
    4. How does the act of naming shape realities?
    5. How is Jeffers' work a feminist novel? 

    interesting to consider for all questions: double consciousness, the form of the text,  contemporary relevance, links to previous sessions...]]>     2022-05-08 08:59:09 UTC https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2174286815     IMPRESSIONS contemporarynovels https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2174312892 2022-05-08 10:00:23 UTC https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2174312892 W.E.B. Du Bois contemporarynovels https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2174315172
  • was born in Massachusetts in 1868. 
  • was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. 
  • was also a prolific author. 
  • "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line." - The Souls of Black Folk

    • one of the first proponents of the race-conflict theory

    • "Living as a member of a non-dominant race, creates a fracture in your sense of identity within that society"





    ]]>     2022-05-08 10:05:49 UTC https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2174315172     GROUP 1 contemporarynovels https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2174315459 examples on pages: 3-5, 8-12, 25, 40]]> 2022-05-08 10:06:35 UTC https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2174315459 GROUP 2 contemporarynovels https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2174315653 examples on pages 11-13, 26-29, 34, 47-49, 50-52]]> 2022-05-08 10:07:07 UTC https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2174315653 GROUP 3 contemporarynovels https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2174315729 examples on pages: 5, 11, 18-20, 28-29, 49]]> 2022-05-08 10:07:19 UTC https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2174315729 GROUP 4 contemporarynovels https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2174315818 examples on pages: 6-8, 12 in comparison to 17-18, 19-21]]> 2022-05-08 10:07:31 UTC https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2174315818 GROUP 5 contemporarynovels https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2174315959 examples on pages: 3, 7, 10-13, 16, 18, 19, 21, 29, 46 ...]]> 2022-05-08 10:07:51 UTC https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2174315959 https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2174326532 out of things to discuss/more time left? 

    • E.g. What happened to Lydia?
    ]]>     2022-05-08 10:33:44 UTC https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2174326532     Double Consciousness contemporarynovels https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2175744680 What comes to your mind when you hear the term "Double consciousness"?


    **Please put your answers in the comment.     ]]>     2022-05-09 13:51:23 UTC https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2175744680     Triple Consciousness contemporarynovels https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2175754424 2022-05-09 13:56:31 UTC https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2175754424 complicated family history https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2177703403 2022-05-10 14:23:07 UTC https://padlet.com/contemporarynovels/DuBois/wish/2177703403