LITR 5831 Seminar in
World Literature:
Colonial / Postcolonial

index to student midterms &

research plans fall 2011
 


Midterm / research plan assignments


Susie Allen: Self and OtherA Journey Home
+ research plan (posts on global culture and commerce-based colonization)

Jennifer Brewer: Confronting Intertextuality, Exploring Narrativity
+ research plan (journal on narrative)

Christina Crawford: The Caribbean Castaway: A Comparative Character Study & Midterm Reflections (2 essays)
+ research plan (journal on primitivism inspired by Gauguin & Lucy)

Lisa Anne Hacker: An Honest Perspective: Bringing Colonial and Post Colonial Writers into Dialogue in the Christian Classroom
+ research plan (journal on Kincaid, Walcott)

Cristen Lauck: Dominance and Obsession; Who Cares About Colonialism? (2 essays)
+ research plan (posts: Mexico's colonization)

Keaton Patterson: Self, Other, Us: The Promise of Dialogue between Colonial and Postcolonial Texts
+ research plan (journal on USA as empire or not)

Jessica Peterson: We All Belong: Inclusion in a Multicultural Literature Course & Opposites React: the Self-Other Relationship in Postcolonial Literature  (2 essays)
+ research plan in essay (posts on Rwandan genocide)

Veronica Ramirez: Dialogue between Texts: If Only Lucy Could Talk to Crusoe . . .
+ research plan (posts: 1. What were early colonizers thinking? 2. Belgium as colonial power?)

Mallory Rogers: The Path to the Emergence of a ‘New and Improved’ Native
+ research plan (Posts: Caribbean Women: Why Their Actions Speak Louder than Words)

James Seth: Analyzing Themes of Isolation, Growth, and Movement in American Colonial and Postcolonial Discourse
+ research plan (research paper on Chicana writers, old and new canon)

Amy Shanks: The Self and the Other Conflict
+
research plan (posts on Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea)

Ryan Smith: Through And Beyond Evil
+ research plan (posts on language, women writers)

Nora Ventura:  "History Intertwined in Written Art" 
+ research plan (posts: educating children on colonialism? & diaspora fiction)

Nicole Wheatley: Imperialism in Literature: The Power of Language and the Lie of Imperialism in Post Colonial Texts
+ research plan (posts on postcolonial technology > social media)