Lit 2120:   World Literature II

Twentieth-Century Anglophone Literature Outside the US and UK

Professor Enteen

 

***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