***All WebCT post due
Wednesday of each week by midnight. ***
Readings should be completed
by date indicated:
Th 1/6: First day of class
Tu 1/11: read Postcolonial handout. Logon to WebCT. Meet in Library Room 235C.
Th 1/13: Mootoo, Section 1
Tu 1/18: Mootoo, Section 2
Th 1/20: Mootoo, Section 3
Tu 1/25: Conrad
Th 1/27: Conrad
Tu 2/1: essays
by wa Thiong'o, (Reader, 2); Achebe (Reader, 3); poem by Busia (Reader, 4)
Th 2/3:
Achebe (Things Fall Apart)
Tu 2/8:
Achebe
Th 2/10: Achebe
Tu 2/15: poems: Walcott (Reader, 5), McKay (Reader,
6), Soyinka (Reader, 7)
Th 2/17: Farah (Reader, 8, Chapters 1-3 [to page
59])
Tu 2/22: Farah (Reader, 8)
Th
2/24: Coetzee (Reader, 9)
Tu
2/29: short stories: Head (Reader, 10), Wicomb (Reader, 11)
Th
3/2: Fugard (Reader, 12)
Tu
3/7: Essay due, 4 copies
Th
3/9: short stories: Naipaul (Reader,
13), Alexander (Reader, 14), Sidhwa (Reader, 15);
Revised
essay due
13-17
March—Spring Break (no post)
Tu 3/21: See Xala (no reading)
Th 3/23: Finish Xala, discussion (no reading)
Tu 3/28: Rushdie
Th 3/30: Rushdie
Tu 4/4: Rushdie
Th 4/6: Rushdie
Tu 4/11: Cliff
Th 4/13: Cliff
Tu 4/18: Cliff
Th 4/20: Caribbean Poetry (Reader, 16) and Music