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Plymouth State Digital Commons @ Plymouth State Open Educational Resources Open Educational Resources 2018 The Student Theorist: An Open Handbook of Collective College Theory Abby Goode Plymouth State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.plymouth.edu/oer Recommended Citation Goode, Abby, "The Student Theorist: An Open Handbook of Collective College Theory" (2018). Open Educational Resources. 18. https://digitalcommons.plymouth.edu/oer/18 This Text is brought to you for free and open access by the Open Educational Resources at Digital Commons @ Plymouth State. It has been accepted for inclusion in Open Educational Resources by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Plymouth State. For more information, please contact [email protected],[email protected]. The Student Theorist: An Open Handbook of Collective College Theory The Student Theorist: An Open Handbook of Collective College Theory Abby Goode Public Commons Publishing Plymouth The Student Theorist: An Open Handbook of Collective College Theory by Abby Goode is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This book was produced using Pressbooks.com, and PDF rendering was done by PrinceXML. Contents Copyright and Authorship 1 Preface to the 2018 Edition 3 PART I. PSYCHOANALYSIS 1. The Uncanny Representation of Sandy Eyes 9 and Castration Amelia Berube, Cassandra Gray, Timothy Mooneyhan, John J. Bush III, and Paige Schoppmann 2. Let's Talk about Death, Baby! 13 Paige Schoppmann 3. Freud, Incest, and Hamlet 20 Ryan French 4. Nautical Nonsense 23 Carmen Maura 5. Scarred for Life 25 Samantha Latos 6. I See Dead People. Maybe. 28 Nicholas A. Prescott 7. "The Uncanny" of Psychoanalysis 31 Andrea Wasgatt 8. "To Go Back" 33 Rowan Finnegan Cummings 9. La Vuelta De Carmen Maura (¡QUE 35 EXTRAÑO!) Carmen Maura 10. Psychoanalysis is the dark web of our minds 37 Kamal Singhani 11. "Women's Troubles" Isn't Restricted to 40 Period Blood Anymore Katherine Whitcomb PART II. FEMINISMS, CONSTRUCTIVISMS, ESSENTIALISMS 12. An Introduction to Feminist Theory 47 Brittany John, Caitlin Andreasen, Ryan French, and Katherine Whitcomb 13. Pass That Privilege Right on Over 50 Ryan French 14. Constructing the Essentials, a DIY guide to 53 Feminism Nicholas A. Prescott 15. She's Perfect, Until She's Not 56 Amelia Berube 16. Good Girl Gone Bad: A Look at Where 59 Angel and Monster Merge Anna Greenwood 17. One Of These Things Is Not Like the 62 Other....And, It's Okay Lindsey DeRoche 18. How Can Nella Larsen Be an Essentialist and 65 a Constructivist in the Same Book? Ethan Dorval 19. Loose Definition of Feminism 67 Cassandra Gray 20. Constructionist Vs Essentialist Feminism 70 Timothy Mooneyhan 21. Green Beans Are Awesome, These Fools Just 73 Don't Know It Yet Edward Lossman 22. The Angry Woman in the Attic 76 Caitlin Andreasen 23. Underwear analogies are fun. Content 79 warning: killer abs. Nicholas A. Prescott 24. Freud was Wrong: Psychologist Burned by 84 Local Feminism(s) Paige Schoppmann 25. Pen Island 88 Samantha Latos PART III. GENDER AND SEXUALITY 26. All The World's A Stage 93 Shayla Locke 27. Constructing Gender 95 Ryan French 28. We are the Constructs. 98 Bradley Rucker 29. Here's to Another Week Where bettyc005 100 Tries to Put Words Together Nicely Brittany John PART IV. IDEOLOGY 30. An Introduction to Ideology 105 Carmen Maura, Edward Lossman, Samantha Latos, and Bradley Rucker 31. Feeding the American Disease 108 Randy Garfield PART V. POSTCOLONIALISM 32. Postcolonialism and its Problems 113 Nicholas A. Prescott, Shayla Locke, MR, Ethan Dorval, and Mason Masotta 33. The Lion Sleeps Tonight 116 Anna Greenwood 34. A Few of the Things Wrong with 119 Pocahontas Shayla Locke 35. Shanti's Self-fulfilled Prophecy 121 Samantha Latos 36. Postcolonial Critique: Fern Gully 126 John J. Bush III 37. Colonizers vs. The Colonized: Black Panther 129 Mason Masotta 38. Unca Eliza as Hybrid Colonizer 132 Katherine Whitcomb 39. Pocahontas standing on a rock and John 135 Smith Standing on another rock opposite her with water between them is just a metaphor for British colonialism. Nicholas A. Prescott 40. Trouble in Paradise: Hawaii, Golf, and 139 Postcolonialism Geneva Sambor 41. Disney's Tarzan: Revealing the Positives and 144 Negatives of Colonialism Jordan Cady 42. Postcolonialism in Aladdin 147 Andrea Wasgatt PART VI. ECOTHEORY 43. The World is a Meshy Place 153 Anna Greenwood, Rowan Cummings, Kyle Cipollone, Randy Garfield, and Kamal Singhani 44. The Tree of Life and the Problem with 158 Nature Malcolm Holmes 45. The Nature of Romantic Literature 161 Zoë Kay 46. (M)other Nature 163 Kelsey Davis PART VII. CRITICAL THEORY IN THE COMMUNITY 47. Earth Jam in Our Community 169 Kyle Cipollone 48. What Does "Free" Mean to a Student? 172 Ideology and First Fire Caitlin Andreasen 49. The Sisters of St. Catherine in Avignon, 175 France Brittany John 50. Is Camping Secondary Colonialism? 179 Toni Gallant 51. Theory and Teaching 182 Cassandra Gray 52. Freud's Uncanny Meets a Dream Play 188 Timothy Mooneyhan 53. Ecotheory and the Bernsen Art Gallery 191 Edward Lossman 54. Earth Jam's Reality Check 195 John J. Bush III 55. GTL 198 Randy Garfield 56. Critical Analysis in the Community: The 201 Hierarchy of Knowledge and Architecture on Plymouth Campus Bradley Rucker 57. A Gender Performance 204 Rowan Finnegan Cummings 58. Casual Fridays are for Discussing Sexual 207 Assault and Queer Ecology Katherine Whitcomb 59. Tabletop Role-Playing Games: The Nesting 212 Doll of Ideology Amelia Berube 60. Crazy Fake Slut Bitch - Feminist? 218 Samantha Latos 61. Women in Comedy 224 Anna Greenwood 62. Ragtime and Racial Identity 229 Zoë Kay 63. Battle of the Sexes, sortof 232 Peter Ntourntourekas 64. Let's Talk About Yoga & [British] 235 Colonialism (Through a Secondary Colonialist Lens) Geneva Sambor 65. Dark Ecology's Presence at Earth Jam 239 Kamal Singhani 66. The Inescapable Gender Binary 241 Ryan French 67. Thinking Beyond Nature; Jam, Earth, Jam. 249 Nicholas A. Prescott 68. In Full Velvet - Queer Ecology 252 Mason Masotta 69. If Althusser Rode an ATV 255 Ethan Dorval 70. Challenging Compulsory Heterosexuality in 257 Dancing with the Community Stars Shayla Locke 71. Host, Parasite, Panama Canal 261 Carmen Maura Appendix 265 The Student Theorist: An Open Handbook of Collective College Theory Editor: Dr. Abby Goode Contributing Authors: Caitlin Andreasen, Amelia Berube, John J. Bush III, Jordan Cady, Kyle Cipollone, Rowan Finnegan Cummings, Lindsey DeRoche, Kelsey Davis, Ethan Dorval, Ryan French, Toni Gallant, Randy Garfield, Cassandra Gray, Anna Greenwood, Malcolm Holmes, Brittany John, Zoë Kay, Samantha Latos, Shayla Locke, Edward Lossman, Mason Masotta, Carmen Maura, Timothy Mooneyhan, Peter Ntourntourekas, Nicholas A. Prescott, MR, Paige Schoppmann, Bradley Rucker, Geneva Sambor, Kamal Singhani, Andrea Wasgatt, Katherine Whitcomb This book-in-progress has been (and is being) almost entirely created by undergraduate students and recent alums. Have an addition or correction or something to add? Email it to Abby at [email protected] 1 ABBY GOODE This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. If you would like a version of this book to edit, revise, and remix, please email Abby Goode at [email protected], and she will send you a file so you can import it into your own PressBooks shell. When you create a new version, please credit Dr. Goode and her students (2018 Contributing Authors) by including an introductory page with our names and a link back to this original text: https://opentheoryhandbook.pressbooks.com/. 2 Preface to the 2018 Edition Welcome to the The Student Theorist! More than a “textbook” or a “handbook,” this text is an open access, digitally published, ongoing, annotatable collection of Critical Theory explorations, brought to you in a neat little package by past students. Featuring mini-essays, blog posts, and cultural analyses selected and edited by students, The Student Theorist provides fresh and personal insights into pertinent theories that can all too often end up explicated in dried- up and complex ways. It includes introductions to concepts such as Sigmund Freud’s “The Uncanny” and Judith Butler’s theory of gender performativity, as well as essays on topics ranging from Spongebob’s Oedipus Complex to ecotheoretical critiques of Earth Jam. The purpose of this handbook is to provide accessible introductions to theoretically robust debates and concepts, while also revealing the enduring and urgent relevance of theory in our world. Throughout this course, we explored the following questions: What is the purpose of literary studies? What do English majors DO and why? Why are we called English majors instead of Literature majors? Theory allows us to begin to answer those questions in compelling and 3 ABBY GOODE unexpected ways. In this course, we explore theories applicable to contemporary texts and situations. Critical theory is useful in many different types of media, such as texts, films, ads, and even events, which many of us showed through our Critical Theory in the Community analyses. The goal of the course at large is to create theory- fluent writers and this handbook begins to show how that can be achieved. At times, the content addressed in this course seemed inaccessible. Theories that challenged our previously- unnoticed, everyday thoughts and actions often made us uncomfortable and confused. This handbook is intended to help future students through this discomfort by celebrating and explaining theory in a cohesive and comprehensible manner. Joining the ride with previous classes will bring some perspective to your own journey through critical theory. Although this handbook was created by college students in a college classroom, the blog posts aim to work through these complicated theories in a way that is accessible to any person looking to learn something new.