World Literatures in English
Spring 2005
Kate Liu -
office hours: Tues 12:00-2:00 and Fri. 10:00 - 12:00

Tentative Calendar 

Musical Examples

* means times for distance-learning practice

Date  Issues, Authors & Texts 
  I. India and Pakistan
  1. 2/24 General Introduction: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, Diaspora & "The Empire Writes Back"1 General, 2. India
 
2. 3/3
 colonialism past and present
* 3.  3/10
 religion, caste system and gender DL-Questions
4. 3/17
 caste system and gender
*5. 3/24
 Immigrants and Cultural Identity  
  • Anjana Appachana "Her Mother"
  • Monsoon Wedding
  • * Connecting to the Big Wide World through Anything Indian
  II. South Africa
   6. 3/31 General Introduction: Representation of Africa & South Africa
  *  Group Report I 1. intro. 2. Fire
  • Tradition:  Njabulo S. Ndebele  "The Prophetess"
  • Some South African poems: "prelude," "The Body is a Country of Joy and Pain," "Our Sharpeville"
*7. 4/7
 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"
  *8.   4/14
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 Anti-Apartheid Movements  
  • Mbulelo Vizihungo Mzamane "The Day of the Riots"
  • Nadine Gordimer ; "Amnesty";
  • Bessie Head "The Prisoner who Wore Glasses"
    9. 4/21

(mid-term week)

 Colonialism Re-Visioned
  • J. M. Coetzee Foe chap 1
   10.  4/28
  • J. M. Coetzee Foe chap 2; chap 4 1, 2
  • "Crusoe in England"
 
III. The Caribbean Area
11. 5/5
 General Introduction: The Caribbean Area   1, 2, 3
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12. 512
 stories of growth; slavery, & creole & female identity  
  • Jean Rhys (Dominique) The Wide Sargasso Sea (Cont'd)
13. 5/19
*14,  5/26
 stories of growth and female sexualities * *Patois Dic.  
*15. 6/2 stories of growth and female sexualities  
16.  6/9
 Imposed and Self Exile & the Diaspora *  Group Report III 1. Floating Life, 2. Fugees, 3. "Children of the Sea"
  • "Children of the Sea" (Edwidge Danticat's Krik Krak) (Haiti)
  • Anything Caribbean or South African
17. 6/16
 Final Exam and Conclusion
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