Read Giles Lytton Strachey

Read Giles Lytton Strachey

For the JE today, I’d like you offer your reflections on the readings and also what your own experience has been as someone who reads/writes from a particular cultural situation, however you wish to describe that (note: it doesn’t have to include race or gender or…whatever, but it can of course, and it can also include or focus on ethnicity or aspirational group (=who you imagine you will be, or what group of people you see as yourself belonging with).

doesn’t have to be long. like a page and half.

Read Jaswinder Bolina’s “Writing Like a White Guy” and Natasha Marin’s Introduction to Black Imagination and several excerpts from her book (McSweeny’s Press, 2020) (below).  

Read Giles Lytton Strachey’s “Ought the Father toGrow a Beard?”