the World Literature class...
was AMAZING. I'll have to talk about it more when I'm not so sleepy but let me just say it's worth it, and that my mind has never been so engaged in my life. I cannot wait for all the other wednesdays to come.
this is from the snippet from the course syllibus:
In this course, we will make connections between texts from around the world that are written from the bottom up. We are particularly interested in studying the effects of colonialism on both the colonized and the colonizer. We will learn to define concepts such as counter-hegemonic aesthetics, new archetypes of the Americas, and mestizaje, and we will learn now to use local terms to talk about these universal concepts. An emphasis will be placed on comparative ethnic, class, sexuality and gender studies as a departure point for making connections within difference.
Required Texts:
Keys to the Garden: New Israeli Writing edited by Ammiel Alcalay
One Day of Life by Manlio Argueta
Women Writing Resistance edited by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez
Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire
Genesis by Eduardo Galeano
Faces & Masks by Eduardo Galeano
Century of The Wind by Eduardo Galeano
The Collector of Treasures by Bessie Head
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Caliban & Other Essays by Roberto Fernández Retamar
The Jaguar Smile by Salman Rushdie
The Question of Palestine by Edward Said
Jubilee by Margaret Walker
American Heritage Dictionary
Objectives:
* To help students write organized, argument-centered essays, culminating in a final research paper
* To enable students master the conventions of Edited American English
* To expand students’ vocabulary
* To develop good reading and writing habits
* To introduce students to rhetorical purposes and strategies
* To introduce students to schools of literary criticism
this is from the snippet from the course syllibus:
In this course, we will make connections between texts from around the world that are written from the bottom up. We are particularly interested in studying the effects of colonialism on both the colonized and the colonizer. We will learn to define concepts such as counter-hegemonic aesthetics, new archetypes of the Americas, and mestizaje, and we will learn now to use local terms to talk about these universal concepts. An emphasis will be placed on comparative ethnic, class, sexuality and gender studies as a departure point for making connections within difference.
Required Texts:
Keys to the Garden: New Israeli Writing edited by Ammiel Alcalay
One Day of Life by Manlio Argueta
Women Writing Resistance edited by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez
Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire
Genesis by Eduardo Galeano
Faces & Masks by Eduardo Galeano
Century of The Wind by Eduardo Galeano
The Collector of Treasures by Bessie Head
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Caliban & Other Essays by Roberto Fernández Retamar
The Jaguar Smile by Salman Rushdie
The Question of Palestine by Edward Said
Jubilee by Margaret Walker
American Heritage Dictionary
Objectives:
* To help students write organized, argument-centered essays, culminating in a final research paper
* To enable students master the conventions of Edited American English
* To expand students’ vocabulary
* To develop good reading and writing habits
* To introduce students to rhetorical purposes and strategies
* To introduce students to schools of literary criticism