{"id":758,"date":"2019-08-27T10:31:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T14:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/?page_id=758"},"modified":"2019-11-07T09:08:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T14:08:08","slug":"week-9","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/the-gothic\/week-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 9: Return of the Jedi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tue. 11\/5<\/strong>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/vassar.ensemblevideo.com\/hapi\/v1\/contents\/permalinks\/Ac3x6W8B\/view\">Star Wars Episode VI\u2013\u2013Return of the Jedi<\/a> <\/em>(1983)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-816\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/files\/2019\/08\/Ladies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/files\/2019\/08\/Ladies.jpg 467w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/files\/2019\/08\/Ladies-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thurs. 11\/7<\/strong>\u00a0Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/files\/2019\/08\/gothic_configurations_of_gender.pdf\">Gothic Configurations of Gender<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Cambridge\u00a0<\/em><em>Companion to Modern Gothic<\/em>. Ed. Jerrold E. Hogle. Cambridge University Press, 2014. p. 55-70.<\/p>\n<p>Imaginary Worlds Podcast, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org\/slave-leia.html\">Slave Leia<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(NOTE: The Imaginary Worlds Podcast is no longer freely available online, so this isn&#8217;t required listening; however, if you have access to Stitcher or Spotify Premium, then you may want to give them a listen)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Persuasion<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While texts certainly contain information, they are not primarily conveyers of this inert knowledge. Rather, texts are rhetorically purposeful messages aimed at effecting some change in the reader\u2019s view of the subject. As readers become more aware that texts are trying to change their views in some way, we can interrogate texts more actively, trying to decide what to accept and what to doubt. Write brief responses (100-200 words) to each of the following questions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Before I read \u201cGothic Configurations of Gender,\u201d the authors assumed that I believed&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>After I finished reading \u201cGothic Configurations of Gender,\u201d the authors wanted me to believe&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>The authors were\/were not successful in changing my view. How so? Why or why not?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div id=\"attachment_952\" style=\"width: 166px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-952\" class=\"wp-image-952\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/files\/2019\/11\/Dannik-Jerriko.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"123\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dannik Jerriko, Azhat<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_954\" style=\"width: 127px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-954\" class=\"wp-image-954\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/files\/2019\/11\/Cornelius-Evazan.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"117\" height=\"159\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cornelius Evazan, Azhat<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_953\" style=\"width: 127px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-953\" class=\"wp-image-953\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/files\/2019\/11\/Countess-Rajine.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"117\" height=\"133\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Countess Rajine, Energy Vampire<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-955 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/files\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-07-at-8.34.01-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"333\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-956\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/files\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-07-at-8.36.12-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/files\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-07-at-8.36.12-AM.png 333w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/files\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-07-at-8.36.12-AM-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZuPe-ly0BHM<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pVWGmQgHDZc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tue. 11\/5\u00a0Star Wars Episode VI\u2013\u2013Return of the Jedi (1983) Thurs. 11\/7\u00a0Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik, \u201cGothic Configurations of Gender,\u201d The Cambridge\u00a0Companion to Modern Gothic. Ed. Jerrold E. Hogle. Cambridge University Press, 2014. p. 55-70. Imaginary Worlds Podcast, \u201cSlave Leia\u201d (NOTE: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/the-gothic\/week-9\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":594,"featured_media":0,"parent":732,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-758","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/594"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/758\/revisions\/961"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}