LITR 5731: Seminar in American Multicultural Literature (Immigrant)

 Index to Text-Objective Discussions, summer 2006


Monday, 5 June 2006: Asian American Immigrant Literature

Text-objective discussion leader: Daniel Robison


Tuesday, 6 June 2006: African American Minority vs. the immigrant narrative.

Text-objective discussion leader: Kaylee Daniel


Thursday, 8 June 2006: American Indian Minority vs. the immigrant narrative.

Text-objective discussion leader: Kim Pritchard


Monday, 12 June 2006: Mexican Americans: Immigrant / American Dream story, or Minority?

Text-objective discussion leader: Kristen Bird


Tuesday, 13 June 2006: Other Hispanic Americans: Immigrant / American Dream story, or Minority?

Text-objective discussion leader: Diane Palmer


Thursday, 15 June 2006: Caribbean Immigrants: Minorities or Immigrants?

Text-objective discussion leader: Katherine Rearick


Tuesday, 20 June 2006: Indian & Pakistani American Literature

Text-objective discussion leader: Carrie Arnett


Thursday, 22 June 2006: Jewish-American: Chosen People in the New World.

Text-objective discussion leader: Sharon Lockett


Monday, 26 June 2006: selections from the Exodus story in the Old Testament of the Bible (student provides; King James / Revised Standard version preferred);

Text-objective discussion leader: Cherie Correa


Tuesday, 27 June 2006: The Pilgrims and the Hebrew model of national migration; prototype of white exclusiveness and purity? William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation (introduction, esp. p. xxii; chapters I-IV).

Text-objective discussion leader: Phil Thrash


Thursday, 29 June 2006: The Pilgrims . . .  Jonathan Raban, from Hunting Mr. Heartbreak: A Discovery of America [handout]

Text-objective discussion leader (Raban article): Pauline Chapman