Waterfronts: from the South to the North, and the Urban East; Representing the landscape(s) of New York (with Rebecca Solnit)

15 Março 2022, 15:30 Margarida Vale de Gato

Reading and commenting on Langston Hughes's poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."

https://usculturalgeography.blogspot.com/2022/03/langston-hughes-negro-speaks-of-rivers.html
The Urban East, rivers, watersheds, waterfronts (powerpoint on moodle).
Rebecca Solnit's take on the sale of Asher B. Durand's "Kindred Spirits" - "The Wal-Mart Biennale" (anthology pp. 165-166) - unexamined assumptions.