Community • Education • Arts (@4CEArts) 2021 NICE Project discussions about our eleven short-listed books: Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley, Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (1892) by Frances E. W. Harper, Sula (1973) by Toni Morrison, The Yellow Wallpaper (1892; short story) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, A Wrinkle in Time (1962) by Madeleine L’Engle, The Secret Garden (1911) by Frances Hodgson Burnett, North and South (1854) by Elizabeth Gaskell, Tarzan of the Apes(1912) by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Tale of Genji (written in the early 11th century) by Lady Murasaki Shikibu, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel García Márquez, a single poem from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1890).
Part 5 features our discussion of A Wrinkle in Time(1962) by Madeleine L’Engle,.
More information about our annual NICE project here: https://cearts.org/home/nice/
Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, we’re sharing our behind-the-scenes discussions for our 2021 NICE project.
Content Note:
Written works, especially classics and books set in historical time periods, may contain problematic content. NICE Project books may possess problematic elements of prejudice, intolerance, racism, classism, violence, and abuse. We’ve recorded several episodes that discuss racism and prejudice in general, and how to address problematic elements in classics and period books. Some of the questions we asked ourselves are: what’s really there? How do we view the book today vs when it was written/the setting? What is the value of reading books with problematic elements? For answers to those questions and more, listen to our podcast episodes available here: https://cearts.org/discussions-against-racism/
