I plan to do the written paper for the final project, and I wanted to use Cal as one of my main sources because it was my favorite book this semester. I was trying to think of a topic that I could argue and after talking with Julie I decided to go with religious colonialism, the effects of other cultures imposing religious beliefs on an existing one. I plan to use both Cal and Things Fall Apart as the sources for this argument, along with the five scholarly sources I have found.
I am still open to a few suggestions but for right now I was thinking about arguing that religious colonization has been a main source of conflict. I know I want to focus on conflicts as it was a central them in Cal and TFA, I'm just not sure if my way is the best way to word it.
Works Cited
Achebe, Chinua. "Things Fall Apart." Things Fall Apart: A Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Francis Abiola Irele. New York: Norton, 2009. 3-117.
Maclaverty, Bernard. Cal. New York: Norton, 1995.
Mitchell, Claire. "Behind the Ethnic Marker: Religion and Social Identification in Northern Ireland." Sociology of Religion 66.1 (2005): 3-21. EBSCOhost. Local University Library Service, Washington State University Lib. 3 Dec. 2009 http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2055/scripts/wsuall.pl?url=http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2077/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=16803373&site=ehost-live
Mitchell's paper covers religious background specifically in Northern Ireland, which will provide good comparisons to Cal. There are some statistics of how many people are Protestant vs. Catholic as well which I can use.
Murdoch, Norman H. "In Darkest Africa: Martyrdom & Resistance to Colonialism in Rhodesia." Journal of Third World Studies 22.1 (2005): 211-232. EBSCOhost. Local University Library Service, Washington State University Lib. 3 Dec. 2009 http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2055/scripts/wsuall.pl?url=http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2077/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=17240324&site=ehost-live
Nelson, Robert H. "Environmental Colonialism: 'Saving' Africa from Africans." Independant Review 8.1 (2003). EBSCOhost. Local University Library Service, Washington State University Lib. 3 Dec. 2009 http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2055/scripts/wsuall.pl?url=http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2077/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=10112478&site=ehost-live
I chose to use Nelson's paper as a source because it covers some good historical background to the religious reasons that people colonized Africa for, and how it affected the people there as Christianity was forced on them.
Pappé, Ilan. "Zionism as Colonialism: A comparative View of Diluted Colonialism in Asia and Africa." South Atlantic Quarterly 107.4 (2008): 611-633. EBSCOhost. Local University Library Service, Washington State University Lib. 3 Dec. 2009 http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2055/scripts/wsuall.pl?url=http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2077/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=35301454&site=ehost-live
Singh, Amardeep. "A Pisgah Sight of Ireland: Religious Embodiment and Colonialism in Ulysses." Semeia 88 (1999): 129-147. EBSCOhost. Local University Library Service, Washington State University Lib. 3 Dec. 2009 http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2055/scripts/wsuall.pl?url=http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2077/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=6315342&site=ehost-live
Singh uses some excerpts from Joyce's Ulysses, and while I didn't choose to cover Joyce, there are some very good information in the paper that specifically relates to the religious conflict in Ireland.
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The core idea is there, but to avoid a historical report (which we do not want) and use the primary texts themselves as leverage/support, you have to come up with a specific argument that answers the "so what?" question. In other words,everyone knows that religious colonization causes conflict. What is it that you are going to argue, that you see in the texts?
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