LITR 5734: Colonial & Postcolonial Literature

Index to Film Highlights 2008

Thursday, 24 January: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, pp. 3-54 (up to part III); Chinua Achebe, "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness," Norton Critical Edition of Heart of Darkness.

·        Reading highlight relating Achebe article to Heart of Darkness

film highlight: Apocalypse Now
presenter: instructor

Thursday, 21 February: Take-home midterm due within 72 hours of class meeting.  Walt Whitman, "Passage to India" (handout); begin Forster’s Passage to India, section I (“Mosque”), chapters 1-3, pp. 3-34.

·        film highlight: Passage to India (d. David Lean, 1984)

presenter: instructor

Thursday, 3 April: begin Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (25-86; up to "The Journal"); Ian Watt, "Robinson Crusoe, Individualism, and the Novel" (handout)

·                    film highlight: White Teeth (part 2)

presenter: Allison Coyle