LITR 5734: Colonial & Postcolonial Literature

Index to Student Poetry Presentations 2005

Tuesday, 6 September: Conclude Heart of Darkness (54-76; complete); begin Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1-51; through chapter 6).

·        Poetry reading from Walcott: “Ruins of a Great House” (19-21)

reader: Luis Saenz

Tuesday, 13 September: Things Fall Apart (52-161; through chapter 18)

·        Poetry reading from Walcott: “A Far Cry from Africa” (17-18)

reader: Tish Wallace

Tuesday, 20 September: Take-home midterm due within 72 hours of class meeting. Conclude discussion of Things Fall Apart (through p. 209; complete); Kirsten Holst Petersen, "Problems of a Feminist Approach to African Literature" (handout); Walt Whitman, "Passage to India" (handout); begin Forster’s Passage to India, section I (“Mosque”), chapters 1-3, pp. 3-34.

·        Poetry reading from Whitman's "Passage to India"

Reader: Jennifer Fregia

Tuesday, 25 October: begin Jasmine

·        Poetry reading from Walcott: “Map of the New World” (413)

reader: Kim Pritchard

Tuesday, 15 November: 

·        Poetry reading from Walcott: “Crusoe’s Island” (68-72)

reader: Beth Cordell

Tuesday, 22 November:

·        Poetry reading from Walcott: “Crusoe’s Journal” (92-4)

reader: Aaron Morris (informal?)

Tuesday, 22 November: Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy (1-83; up to chapter titled "Cold Hearts"); visit from M. A. candidate writing thesis on Lucy

·        Poetry reading from Walcott: “The Gulf” (104-108)

reader: Pauline Chapman (informal?)

Tuesday, 29 November: Lucy (through 164; complete)

·        Poetry reading from Walcott: from The Estranging Sea, ch. 20, part 1 (271-73)

reader: Samantha McDonald (informal?)