COUNTER-CANON: The body as contested ground

This is the first Counter-Canon night -- texts that push against the conventions of how literature usually behaves. Rankine turns racism into second person. Woolf writes about being sick and wonders why no one else has. Machado builds a horror story out of marriage advice. Each writer uses the body as the site where power becomes visible. Pay attention to what form each one chooses and why a traditional form wouldn't have worked.