(Comments due Sunday 1/27)
This week we'll be watching people confront difference and investigating how this establishes or troubles definitions on or about the body. For this post, I want you to reflect on what we've read and what we've discussed in class and give me a good picture of the "New World Body." What does it look like? Is it gendered? Is it threatening? As a representational figure - what does it tell us about how the New World was seen by these authors? Is it normative or powerful? If not, whose body is? In other words, what are the definitions in play here?
After you establish a good definition argument (supported by at least one example), I want you to use your analysis of the native body to talk about the following image. This is a map from the 17th century and it has interesting illustrations that visually "map out" the New World. How do these bodies compare to the figure you've drawn from the readings? Similar? Different? How?
(click on images to enlarge)
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