Hi everyone, Here is a link to the podcast Leanne and I did for the final project. It goes over all the plays we’ve encountered this semester in chronological order, and we talked about some nifty stuff you might enjoy. Cheers, and stay safe!
Read More →Archive for December, 2020
Final Project: Contagious Conversations with Lubnah and Siya (PODCAST)
Buckle up for a conversation that delves into: the contagion of ideas & social structures, the concept of “co-morbidities” in society, and most importantly, the contagion of hope as examined by the texts we read this semester. Bonus content (rapid fire Q&A about this class) in the last 10 minutes. Enjoy our website and podcast […]
Read More →Podcast – Isolation, Connection and everything in between
Hi everyone! We are making our last post of the semester to present our final podcast. We loved the idea of having a final project that involved us having conversations about the texts we read during the semester. We narrowed down on a theme, and tried to explore it (and a little bit extra) as […]
Read More →The Plague & Angels & a note about hope (Smrithi’s very late Augmenter’s Post)
This is a long overdue augmenter’s post! I am sincerely sorry about the delay! I’m hoping super late is better than never. But really, I just wanted to add a couple of thoughts here about Camus’ The Plague, and Kushner’s Angels in America. Jacques Othon’s death in The Plague remains to be one of those […]
Read More →Roy-cohn-naissance
Angels in America is a period piece. Kushner bridges fact and fiction in a story set in 1980s America. One of the key pillars of that bridge is big gun prosecutor Roy Cohn. He is the only major character in the play explicitly based on a real life person. “Have you no sense of decency?” […]
Read More →Angel of the Waters
Post originally published May 2008 on ahistoryofnewyork.com New York seems, to me, to differ from other major world cities in the recyclability (is that even a word?) of its symbols — especially its architecture and public art. To get what I mean, consider the Louvre by contrast. You experience it as an art museum, and […]
Read More →20 years of teaching Angels
I don’t think I have contact with any of my students from Harvard in 1999-2000, which was the first time I taught Angels in America, but these were two of my students in an honors seminar I taught during my first semester at NYU in the fall of 2001. It was amazing to run into […]
Read More →American Stagnancy in “Angels in America”: What’s next for the U.S.?
When reading Angels in America, there’s no avoiding its overtness when it comes to the political. The era of Reaganism and conservatism in the 1980s is depicted as one seeking stability of power from the status quo; and, the traditional moral values that, for example, have privileged the traditional, white, heterosexual American. Angels in America […]
Read More →Power of Labels and Labels of Power
Labels have power, Very recently we saw the 45th US president, Donald trump call the SARS-CoV-2 (the COVID-19 virus) the Chinese virus. this caused an uproar because labeling the virus “The Chinese virus” causes the formation of an exaugurated association between the virus and China. Therefore, indirectly causing an increase in xenophobia towards East Asians in the country. […]
Read More →A Closeted Marriage
In Angels in America we are exposed to a very real situation that occured particularly in the late 20th Century. Joe and Harper’s relationship could be reflected in many households often times with families who had already birthed multiple children. With homosexuality being such a stigma, many members of the LGBTQ+ community kept their sexual […]
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