Tentative Calendar 

Musical Examples

Date	Issues, Authors & Texts
I. India and Pakistan
	General Introduction: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, Diaspora & "The Empire Writes Back"   1 General, 2. India India: cultural, historical background Indian poems; Lagoon (excerpt)

2. 9/26	religion, caste system and gender 1. Earth, 2. the two stories Ismat Chughtai "Gainda" Qurratulain Hyder  "Honour" Deepa Mehta  Earth
3.  10/3	colonialism past and present 1. Salaam Bombay, 2. "Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella" Salman Rushdie: "Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella of Spain Consummate Their Relationship " Salaam Bombay
4. 10/10	Holiday
5. 10/17	caste system and gender The God of Small Things
6. 10/24	Immigrants and Cultural Identity Anjana Appachana "Her Mother" B. Mukherjee: "The Management of Grief"
II. South Africa
7. 10/31	General Introduction: Representation of Africa & South Africa  (e.g. Cry Freedom)    *  Group Report I  1, 2  Tradition:  Njabulo S. Ndebele  "The Prophetess" Some South African poems: "prelude," "The Body is a Country of Joy and Pain," "Our Sharpeville"
8. 11/7	Some Consequences of Apartheid Njabulo S. Ndebele "The Music of the Violin"  Nadine Gordimer  "Six Feet of the Country" Some South African poems "Reflections of an Old Worker, " "Love Song"
9.   11/14 (mid-term week)	Anti-Apartheid Movements Mbulelo Vizihungo Mzamane "The Day of the Riots" Nadine Gordimer ; "Amnesty"; Bessie Head "The Prisoner who Wore Glasses"
10. 11/21	Colonialism Re-Visioned J. M. Coetzee Foe chap 1
11.  11/28	J. M. Coetzee Foe chap 2; chap 4. group report II, the novel as a whole

III. The Caribbean Area
12. 12/5	General Introduction: The Caribbean Area   *  Group Report III 1. Sugar Cane; 2. General intro. 3. Rhys Sugar Cane Alley Caribbean popular songs (examples) and poetry Wide Sargasso Sea: Intro.
13. 12/12	stories of growth; slavery, & creole & female identity Jean Rhys (Dominique) The Wide Sargasso Sea (Cont'd)
14. 12/19	Jean Rhys (Dominique) The Wide Sargasso Sea
15,  12/26	stories of growth and female sexualities * *Patois Dic. Abeng by Michelle Cliff(Jamaica) Olive Senior's "Bright Thursdays"
16. 1/2	stories of growth and female sexualities Jamaica Kincaid  Annie John (Antigua)
17.  1/9	Imposed and Self Exile & the Diaspora *  Group Report III "Children of the Sea" (Edwidge Danticat's Krik Krak) (Haiti) Chinese diaspora: some examples Happy Together; and Paul Wong
18. 1/16	Final Exam and Conclusion