Choose an early (17th -19th C) written text in which a community of people is misrepresented as monstrous, fearsome or vile from the library databases and write an analytical paper on it. You will be expected to summarize the text you have read and then explain what you understand the text to mean, within the context of the questions and issues posed in the course description. Make sure to draw on three of the following authors we have read in your analysis: Ranajit Guha, Rediker and Linebaugh, (Villains or Many-Headed Hydra), Cedric Robinson, Sylvia Federicci, Roxanne Wheeler. End your paper with a discussion about what makes this media-text relevant to our times and what it can teach us about the representations of vilified communities in the present. This section will serve as the link between your mid-term and final paper.
Besides writing the paper, you will be required to provide the exact citation and link to the text you locate. Your paper will be evaluated for a maximum possible score of 20/100 points. Your paper must be original work, crafted only by you. If you would like help writing your paper, you can seek support at the campus-based writing center. Be sure to read the university policy on plagiarism so that you fully understand it.