For Friday, December 2nd, 2011, read Zadie Smith's "Speaking in Tongues" (Hitchens 179- 194).
We will be discussing, writing, and blogging about it inclass. To prepare kindly post (here as blog post 4 of 12), your own six questions you have following your reading of this text. Make sure you ask the right questions though. Craft questions that are whole and hale and honest in their inquiring. Post these six questions on your blog.
You should use language from the essay and cite the page, as follows in this sample question 1:
Zadie Smith exclaims in an apostrophe to the reader: "How persistent this horror of the middling spot is, this dread of the interim place! It extends through the specter of the tragic mulatto, to the plight of the transsexual, to our present anxiety -- disguised as genteel concern -- for the contemporary immigrant, tragically split, we are sure, between worlds, ideas, cultures, voices -- whatever will become of them?(181-2)" Why does Smith lament so vociferously the in-between? Does her own sense of self involve such doubling? such ambiguity?
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