LITR / CRCL 5734: Colonial & Postcolonial Literature
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Syllabus & Schedule |
Spring 2008
2005
- Syllabus for LITR / CRCL 5734 2005
- Presentation Schedule 2005 (revised post-Rita)
2003
Lecture Notes 2008
Introductory class, 17 January 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, pp. 251-262
Thursday, 31 January: Conclude Heart of Darkness (54-76; complete); begin Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1-51; through chapter 6).
Thursday, 7 February: Things Fall Apart (52-161; through chapter 18)
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);
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.
Thursday, 28 February: Continue E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (pp. 35-212; through II, "Caves," chapter xx); Edward W. Said, "Orientalism" (handout)
Thursday, 6 March: complete Forster, A Passage to India (through part III, "Temple"; 212-362)
Thursday, 13 March: Begin Train to Pakistan. through page 116 (through Kalyug chapter, up to Mano Majra chapter)
Thursday, 27 March: complete Train to Pakistan (through p. 181)
Thursday, 3 April: begin Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (25-86; up to "The Journal"); Ian Watt, "Robinson Crusoe, Individualism, and the Novel" (handout)
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 . . . )
Thursday, 17 April: Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy (1-83; up to chapter titled "Cold Hearts")
Thursday, 24 April: Lucy (through 164; complete)
Thursday, 1 May: final exam (timing depends on whether you take it in-class or by email; see above)