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LITR
5734: Colonial & Postcolonial Literature a. k. a. CRCL
5734: Cross-Cultural Texts in Dialogue Fall 2005 T 7-9:50 pm; B3233 > 2104 Instructor: Craig White Office: B2529-8 Phone: 281 283 3380
email: whitec@uhcl.edu Office Hours: M 7-9; T 4-5 & by appointment Course webpage: http://coursesite.uhcl.edu/HSH/Whitec/LITR/5734 Reading
& Presentation Schedule Tuesday, 23 August: introduction Tuesday, 30 August: 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 · Discussion starter(s) relating Achebe article to Heart of Darkness: Aaron Morris · Poetry reading from Walcott: “Koenig of the River” (379-82) reader: instructor ·
film highlight: Apocalypse
Now presenter: Michael Russo · Web review: animism Reviewer: Samantha McDonald Tuesday, 6 September: 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: Georgeann Ward · Poetry reading from Walcott: “Ruins of a Great House” (19-21) reader: Luis Saenz · Web review: Intertextuality Reviewer: Mary Brooks Tuesday, 13 September: Things Fall Apart (52-161; through chapter 18) · Discussion starter(s) on formal elements of novel in Things Fall Apart: Bobby Ausmus · Poetry reading from Walcott: “A Far Cry from Africa” (17-18) reader: Tish Wallace · Web review: Chinua Achebe, Amos Tutuola, Ngugi wa Thiong’o Reviewer: Pauline Chapman · Web highlight (previous midterms): Highlighter: Kim Pritchard Tuesday, 20 September: class canceled; university closed following morning Tuesday, 27 September: class canceled; university closed on account of Hurricane Rita Tuesday, 4 October: Take-home
midterm due within 72 hours of class meeting. Conclude discussion of Things
Fall Apart (through p. 209; complete); Kirsten Holst Petersen,
"Problems of a Feminist Approach to African Literature" (handout);
Walt Whitman, "Passage to India" (handout); begin Forster’s Passage
to India, section I (“Mosque”), chapters 1-3, pp. 3-34. · Discussion starter(s) relating Holst Petersen article to Things Fall Apart; also review web article on wife-beating in Africa (under “Miscellaneous”): Beth Cordell ·
Poetry reading from Whitman's
"Passage to India" Reader: Jennifer Fregia · Web review: E. M. Forster sites Reviewer: Betsy Barnes ·
film highlight: Passage to
India (d. David Lean, 1984) presenter: Georgeann Ward Tuesday, 11 October: Continue E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (pp. 35-212; through II, "Caves," chapter xx); Edward W. Said, "Orientalism" (handout) · Discussion starter(s) relating Said article to A Passage to India: Pauline Chapman · Poetry reading from Walcott: “The Season of Phantasmal Peace” (464-65) reader: Michael Russo (informal?) · Web review: novel of manners Reviewer: Georgeann Ward · Web review: karma Reviewer: Pauline Chapman Tuesday, 18 October: complete Forster, A Passage to India (through part III, "Temple"; 212-362) · Discussion starter(s) for Passage to India: Betsy Barnes film highlight: Hawaii presenter: Samantha McDonald · Web review: Partition of India Reviewer: Anurrudha Ellakkala Tuesday, 25 October: Begin Train to Pakistan. ·
Dialogue between Passage
to India & Train to Pakistan leader: Anuruddha Ellakkala · Web review: Khushwant Singh Reviewer: Luis Saenz · Web review: Punjab and the Sikhs Reviewer: Jennifer Fregia · Film review: The Quiet American Reviewer: Aaron Morris Tuesday, 1
November: conclude Train to
Pakistan ·
Dialogue between Passage
to India & Train to Pakistan leader: Betsy Barnes · Poetry reading from Walcott: from Another Life: The Divided Child, ch. 1 (143-149) reader: Anuruddha Ellakkala Tuesday, 8 November: begin Jasmine Discussion
starter(s) for Jasmine: Luis Saenz · Poetry reading from Walcott: “Map of the New World” (413) reader: Kim Pritchard film highlight:
White Teeth (part 1) presenter: Tish Wallace · Web review: Bharati Mukherjee Reviewer: Michael Russo Tuesday, 15 November: conclude Jasmine Discussion starter(s) for Jasmine: Mary Brooks · Poetry reading from Walcott: “Crusoe’s Island” (68-72) reader: Beth Cordell film highlight:
White Teeth (part 2) presenter: Pauline Chapman · Web review: “Passage from India” article (under “Miscellaneous”) Reviewer: Bobby Ausmus Tuesday, 22 November: Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy (1-83; up to chapter titled "Cold Hearts"); visit from M. A. candidate writing thesis on Lucy Discussion
starter(s) for Lucy:
Tish Wallace · Poetry reading from Walcott: “The Gulf” (104-108) reader: Aaron Morris (informal?) · Web review (Jamaica Kincaid) Reviewer: Jennifer Fregia Tuesday, 29 November: Lucy (through 164; complete) ·
Dialogue between Robinson
Crusoe & Lucy: leader: Mary Brooks (change to discussion leader for Lucy) · Poetry reading from Walcott: from The Estranging Sea, ch. 20, part 1 (271-73) reader: Samantha McDonald (informal?) · Web highlight (final exams): Highlighter: Beth Cordell Tuesday, 6 December: final exam (timing depends on whether you take it in-class or by email; see syllabus) |