Midterm Essay: Metacommentary (750 Words) Form: The form of this essay will take after Jenny Boullys The Body, an Essay. Rather than writing a standard essay form, you will instead write only footnotes that reference an absent body text. The body text you reference can be a real text, such as a text from class, your own writing, or elsewhere. Alternatively, it can an imagined text, one that doesnt actually exist at all. Content: The content of this essay is your commentary on something else. Your notes about the absent text you are referencing. Your observations and thoughts about that which we cannot, ourselves, as readers, see. If your absent text is a poem from class, then your essay will be your thoughts on the poem. If your absent text is a grocery list you put together the night before, then your essay will be your thoughts on that grocery list. Citations: You must reference or cite three texts, either poems or essays, from the readings weve done in class. Expanded Midterm Explanation When writing this paper, youll begin by choosing something from your journal, from your notes, from lecture, from the texts weve read in class, etc. Ex 1: As the Vietnamese delegates explained how the US War in Viet Nam depended on gendered and sexualized violence in Asia, Asian American women emphasized the transnational nature of that violence. We, as Asian American women, cannot separate ourselves from our Asian counterparts, Evelyn Yoshimura argued. 1 Racism against them is too often racism against us . The mentality that keeps Suzy Wong, Madame Butterfly and gookism alive turns human beings into racist murdering soldiers and also keeps Asian Americans from being able to live and feel like human beings. Add a footnote or two, explaining your thinking about something in your chosen excerpt. Evelyn Yoshimura references the inseparability of Asian American women from Asian women across the world. How the Asian American woman might sometimes seem an isolated figure, distant from those who live in Asia. But how the very same violences that affect Asian American women affect, too, those women across the Pacific. Ex 2: You can also add a footnote based on your own footnote! It has never occurred to me that I might be isolated, myself, from Asia. I have always considered myself to be in relation to people, even if Ive only been once or twice to Japan. There is something that keeps my attentions on Japanese media, Japanese people. Ex 3: You might add a footnote to something youd written in your assignments earlier. For example, if earlier you wrote about your parents immigration story: I think what I was trying to say here was that in order for me to understand myself, in order for me to explain myself to anyone else, I first must start with the story of my parents. So I want to take this space to tell that story. But remember! The source of your footnote will not be included in the essay. Only the footnote. Later, when you cite your sources, say what you used. But the texts you use, themselves, should not appear in the essay. So, the beginning of my final essay would look something like: 1. Evelyn Yoshimura references the inseparability of Asian American women from Asian women across the world. How the Asian American woman might sometimes seem an isolated figure, distant from those who live in Asia. But how the very same violences that affect Asian American women affect, too, those women across the Pacific. 2. It has never occurred to me that I might be isolated, myself, from Asia. I have always considered myself to be in relation to people, even if Ive only been once or twice to Japan. There is something that keeps my attentions on Japanese media, Japanese people. 3. I think what I was trying to say here was that in order for me to understand myself, in order for me to explain myself to anyone else, I first must start with the story of my parents. So I want to take this space to tell that story. This essay is essentia…
Looking for a solution written from scratch with No plagiarism and No AI?
WHY CHOOSE US?
We deliver quality original papers |
Our experts write quality original papers using academic databases.We dont use AI in our work. We refund your money if AI is detected |
Free revisions |
We offer our clients multiple free revisions just to ensure you get what you want. |
Discounted prices |
All our prices are discounted which makes it affordable to you. Use code FIRST15 to get your discount |
100% originality |
We deliver papers that are written from scratch to deliver 100% originality. Our papers are free from plagiarism and NO similarity.We have ZERO TOLERANCE TO USE OF AI |
On-time delivery |
We will deliver your paper on time even on short notice or short deadline, overnight essay or even an urgent essay |