LITR 5734: Colonial & Postcolonial Literature

Index to Student Poetry Presentations 2008

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

·        Poetry reading: W. B. Yeats, “The Second Coming”

reader: Danielle Lynch

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

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

reader: Cynthia Stone

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.

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

Reader: Talli Ortiz

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

·        Poetry reading from Walcott: “The Season of Phantasmal Peace” (464-65)

reader: C. Vanessa Olivier

Thursday, 6 March: complete Forster, A Passage to India (through part III, "Temple"; 212-362)

·        Poetry reading from Walcott: "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" (91)

reader: Matt Richards

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")

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

reader: Tanya Stanley