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Your primary Source Analysis is on: The Settlers, Shimon Dotan documentary.
Here is the Link to the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prqtXMSdeUw
Instructions
The purpose of this assignment is to give the opportunity to interact with a variety of different types of primary sources in a critical manner. As you are reading, I want you to consider how the fiction, poetry, philosophy, art, film, music, diaries, or whatever particular type of source we’re examining gives us a different insight into the past or a new understanding of how the stories a community tells about its’ past informs their culture, politics and society in the present day. Throughout the semester, you will choose four readings you’re particularly interested in and write a short analysis (500-750 words).
You must include citations from the source you are discussing. Please do not bring in any additional research. You may cite other material from our course if you think it relevant to your analysis. The citation style for this course is parenthetical. This means that you are to present your citations in-text like this: “Place quotes from your source within double-quotation marks, close the quotation marks at the end of the quote, and in parentheses give the author’s name and page number where you pulled the citation from” (Francis 52). If you only cite one text (to use “Returning to Haifa” as an example again), such as Ghassan Kanafani’s “Returning to Haifa” throughout your whole analysis you may omit the author’s name and just put the page number in parentheses after your citation. If you are quoting multiple readings by the same author–for example, we have two readings written by Paula Hyman–include the publication year in the parenthetical citation (Hyman 2003: 153).
When you’re writing your analysis keep in mind the following questions: You do NOT have to answer all of them or indeed any of them, these are just meant to help you start thinking thinking critically about the text):
What type of source is it?
Who wrote it?
What does this source tell us and what does it NOT tell us?
What type of source could you use to compliment this source to get a fuller understanding of the event under consideration?
How does the creator of this text or image or film or artwork interact with the ideas of historical narrative and historical memory that we have discussed thus far during the semester?
How does this source’s representation of the past help build our understanding of the thoughts, emotions, behaviors, culture or politics of the creator’s communit(ies)?
How does this source complicate or expand your understanding of the past or the way that the past is informing the present?
Has anything we have read or studied this semester complimented or contradicted the information you read in your chosen source?
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