CMLIT 405: Inter-American Literature Plan of Study

Dr. Sophia A. McClennen, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish

Spring 2004

Plan of Study

CMLIT 405:

Inter-American Literature

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A Note about Readings:

I reserve the option of making changes to our daily readings (additions, deletions or adaptations of the current set).

Week 1	Tuesday 1/13		Thursday
In class	Description of Course		Sex, Politics, and Representation: Sources in Patriarchy
For Class			1. Introduction on Angel Readings: Sex Power and Politics Anne McClintock “The lay of the land: genealogies of imperialism” Introduction to Gender and Sex Freud and Lacan: Psychoanalytic Theory Further Reading: Taxonomy of Feminist Intellectual Traditions
Week 2		Tuesday 1/20		Thursday
In class		Sex, Politics, and Representation: Michel Foucault’s Critique		Sex, Politics, and Representation: Critique
For Class		Readings: The History of Sexuality The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Volume 1		Readings: 1. Judith Butler 2. Gender Trouble 3. Summary of W. Reich’s “Mass Psychology of Fascism”

Week 3

Tuesday 1/27

Thursday

In class

Monstrous Women I: Anne Hutchinson, Anne Bradstreet, and Mary Dyer

Monstrous Women II:

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and

Catalina de Erauso/La monja Alferez

For Class

Readings:

1. "Such Monstrous Births": A Neglected Aspect of the Antinomian Controversy Anne Jacobson Schutte, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 1. (Spring, 1985), pp. 85-106. (In JSTOR)

2. "Unfit for Light": Anne Bradstreet's Monstrous Birth by Bethany Reid The New England Quarterly, Vol. 71, No. 4. (Dec., 1998), pp. 517-542. (In JSTOR)

3. Myles, Anne G. From Monster to Martyr: Re-Presenting Mary Dyer Early American Literature - Volume 36, Number 1, 2001, pp. 1-30 – Article (in Project Muse)

Readings:

1. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: The Answer/La Respuesta.

2. Introduction to Catalina Erauso’s Autobiography

Week 4	Tuesday 2/3	Thursday
In class	Sex, Power, and the Devil	The Crucible continued
For Class	Readings: The Crucible

Required Film screening: Lucia

Week 5

Tuesday 2/10

Thursday

In class

Icons of America: Columbus, The Statue of Liberty, La Malinche, La Virgin de Guadalupe

Gender and Nation Building: Discussion of Lucia

For Class

Readings:

1. “Columbia, Columbus and Columbianism” Thomas Schlereth in The Journal of American History, Vol. 79, No. 3, Discovering America: A Special Issue. (Dec., 1992), pp. 937-968. Stable URL: (available on JSTOR).

2. "Yo Soy La Malinche": Chicana Writers and the Poetics of Ethnonationalism” Mary Louise Pratt Callaloo, Vol. 16, No. 4, On "Post-Colonial Discourse": A Special Issue. (Autumn, 1993), pp. 859-873. (Available on JSTOR).

3. Ed McCaughan, Ed Gender, Sexuality, and Nation in the Art of Mexican Social Movements Nepantla: Views from South - Volume 3, Issue 1, 2002, pp. 99-143. (available on Project Muse)

4. The Statue of Liberty

Reading:

Reading between the Lines: Women, the State, and Rectification in Cuba Sheryl L. Lutjens Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 22, No. 2, Women in Latin America. (Spring, 1995), pp. 100-124. (Available on JSTOR)

Week 6

Tuesday 2/17

Thursday

In class

Reproduction and the State:

The Handmaid’s Tale

Close reading #1

The Handmaid’s Tale continued

For Class

The Handmaid’s Tale

Extra Credit Film screening: La historia oficial (details in class)

Week 7

Tuesday 2/24

Thursday

In class

American Icons II: Masculinity, independence movements, and revolution

In class screening of El dia que me quieras and Malcolm X

Discussion

For Class

The Latin American Cult of Bolivar: Some Introductory Comments
Simón Bolívar and the Latin American Wars of Independence
Figuring Benjamin Franklin in American Cultural Memory Carla Mulford The New England Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 3. (Sep., 1999), pp. 415-443.

1.The Kennedy Myth and American Politics

Herbert S. Parmet. The History Teacher, Vol. 24, No. 1. (Nov., 1990), pp. 31-39.

2.Castro: The great survivor

3. Che Guevara

4. Malcolm X

5. Martin Luther King

Week 8	Tuesday 3/2	Thursday
In class	Mid-Term Review/ Pick up take home mid-term	Turn in Mid-term
For Class

Week 9	Tuesday 3/9	Thursday
In class	Spring Break	Spring Break
For Class

Week 10

Tuesday 3/16

Thursday

In class

Julia Alvarez: In the time of the Butterflies

Close Reading #2

Presentation on Alvarez

For Class

Read Alvarez

Week 11	Tuesday 3/23	Thursday
In class	Manuel Puig The Kiss of the Spider Woman	Presentation on Puig
For Class	Read Puig

Week 12	Tuesday 3/30	Thursday
In class	Ariel Dorfman Death and the Maiden	Presentation on Dorfman
For Class	Read Dorfman

Required Film screening: La boca del lobo/ The Lion’s Den

Week 13	Tuesday 4/6	Thursday
In class	Discuss La boca del lobo and Vargas Llosa	Presentation on Vargas Llosa
For Class	Read Vargas Llosa and see the film

Week 14	Tuesday 4/13	Thursday
In class	Clarice Lispector’s The Hour of the Star	Presentation on Lispector
For Class	Read Lispector

Week 15

Tuesday 4/20

Thursday

In class

Conclusions

Final paper meetings

For Class

Work on presentations and final papers

Week 16	Tuesday 4/27	Thursday
In class	Final Project Presentations	Final Project Presentations
For Class	Work on presentations and final papers	Work on presentations and final papers

Final Papers are due Monday, May 3 by 4pm.

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