LITR / CRCL 5734: Colonial & Postcolonial Literature

Index to Student Text-Dialogue Presentations 2008

Thursday, 31 January: Conclude Heart of Darkness (54-76; complete); begin Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1-51; through chapter 6).

·        Dialogue between Heart of Darkness & Things Fall Apart

leader: Corrie Manigold

Thursday, 7 February: Things Fall Apart (52-161; through chapter 18)

·        Dialogue between Heart of Darkness & Things Fall Apart:

leader: Erica Shillings

Thursday, 14 February: Conclude discussion of Things Fall Apart (through p. 209; complete); Kirsten Holst Petersen, "Problems of a Feminist Approach to African Literature" (handout);

·        Dialogue between Things Fall Apart & Petersen, "Problems of a Feminist Approach to African Literature":

leader: Tanya Stanley

Thursday, 28 February: Continue E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (pp. 35-212; through II, "Caves," chapter xx); Edward W. Said, "Orientalism" (handout)

·        Dialogue between A Passage to India & "Orientalism":

leader: Dawlat Yassin

Thursday, 13 March: Begin Train to Pakistan. through page 116 (through Kalyug chapter, up to Mano Majra chapter)

·                    Dialogue between Passage to India & Train to Pakistan

leader: corey porter!

Thursday, 27 March:  complete Train to Pakistan (through p. 181)

·        Dialogue between Passage to India & Train to Pakistan

leader: Larry Stanley

Thursday, 10 April: Robinson Crusoe (complete, but especially 160 ("You are to understand that now I had . . . two plantations . . . ") through page 233 ("There was another tree . . . )

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

reader: Brouke M. Rose-Carpenter

Thursday, 17 April: Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy (1-83; up to chapter titled "Cold Hearts")

·        Dialogue between Robinson Crusoe & Lucy:

leader: Jim Steinhilber

Thursday, 24 April: Lucy (through 164; complete)

·        Dialogue between Robinson Crusoe & Lucy:

leader: Karen Daniel