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- From: srubio@garnet.berkeley.edu (Steven Rubio)
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- Subject: Re: 92 in rabreview
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 03:51:41 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- Summary: Graphic Novels (i.e. comic books) Do Count
-
- (Hi Annie!)
-
- I teach first-and-second year composition at Cal. My reading lists tend
- to the "easy" ... for next semester, as an example, we will be reading
- _Rubyfruit Jungle_, _Bless Me, Ultima_, _Slaves of New York_, and
- _Generation X_ while watching the movies _Boyz in the Hood_ and _Sid and
- Nancy_.
-
- One semester I taught the comic book (I don't like fancy-schmancy titles
- like "graphic novels") _Batman: The Dark Knight Returns_ to a first-year
- class. We also read the aforementioned _Rubyfruit_, Frederick Douglass'
- autobiography, and material on Elvis Presley and Madonna, while watching
- the first Tim Burton _Batman_ movie and _Madonna: Truth or Dare_. Without
- exception my students found _Dark Knight_ to be the hardest text of the
- semester. Granted, the competition wasn't necessarily stiff, but if one
- requirement of taking a book "seriously" is that it can't be too "easy"
- than I agree with Annie that many (most?) "graphic novels" are indeed
- dense and difficult. Me, I like easy and admit I was surprised at how
- much "work" my students had to put into the comic.
-
- Steven
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