The schedule for this course is tailored to the group, so it's slightly idiosyncratic. Here's a reminder:
Weeks 1-5 meet from 3-5.30pm. Weeks 6 & 7 meet from 12-3pm.
16 May - introduction to course and each other; introduction to Tapped In MUVE followed by online playtime
Monday, 20 May - READ: Things Fall Apart POST: questions and comments to class email list by Sunday, 5pm
Thursday, 23 May - READ:handouts (distributed in class on 20 May) - Simon Gikandi, "Chinua Achebe and the Signs of the Times"; Robert M. Wren, "Things Fall Apart in Its Time and Place"; Dan Izevbaye, "The Igbo as Exceptional Colonial Subjects: Fictionalizing an Abnormal Historical Situation"; Ousseynou B. Traoré, "Matrical Approach to Things Fall Apart: A Poetics of Epic and Mythic Paradigms"; Rhonda Cobham, "Making Men and History: Achebe and the Politics of Revisionism"; Wahneema Lubiano, "Narrative, Metacommentary, and Politics in a 'Simple Story'"; Biodun Jeyifo, "The Problem of Realism in Things Fall Apart: A Marxist Exegesis"
Thursday, 30 May - READ:Anthills of the Savannah POST: questions and comments to the class email list by Wednesday, 5pm
Monday, 3 June - READ:A Tempest
Thursday, 6 June - READ:Kaffir Boy and handouts; discussion on teaching autobiography and creative non-fiction POST: questions/comments on reading; & share something you've learned from reading the NCTE-talk email list - post by today, 12pm
Thursday, 13 June - READ:Kaffir Boy IN CLASS: discussion of handouts in class - Alex La Guma, "Blankets" & selected poetry
Monday, 17 June - READ: [these texts will be handed out on 13 June] Miriam Tlali, "Point of No Return"; Ama Ata Aidoo, "Everything Counts"; Marlene Nourbese Philip, "Discourse on the Logic of Lanuage"; Rosario Ferre, "Mercedes Benz 220 SL"; Merle Collins, "No Dialects Please"; Valerie Bloom, "Life in Uncle Sam's Backyard"; Louise Bennett, "Pass fi White"; Olive Senior, "Do Angels Wear Brassieres?"; Nicolas Guillen, "Problems of Underdevelopment"; Mutabaruka, "Revolutionary Poets" & "White Sound"; Lorna Goodison, "Heartease"
Wednesday, 19 June - READ: Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony POST or WRITE: questions/comments - post to list by 5pm Tuesday, 18 June or write 1 page and bring to class
Thursday, 20 June - READ:[these texts will be handed out on 19 June] Gerald Murnane, "Land Deal"; Elizabeth Jolley, "The Well-Bred Thief"; Patrick White, "Clay"; selected poetry
Monday, 24 June - READ: Naomi Shihab Nye, Habibi; Ghassan Kanafani, "Returning to Haifa" (handout) POST or WRITE: questions/comments - post to list by 5pm Sunday, 23 June or write 1 page and bring to class
Wednesday, 26 June - READ: Friedrich Durrenmatt, The Visit; Milan Kundera, "Edward & God"
Thursday, 27 June - READ: Kafka, "The Metamorphosis"; Ana Seghers, "Excursion of the Dead Girls"
first published: 15 may 2002
last revised: 18 june 2002
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