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

 

Spring 2007

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 1/16

Thursday

In class

Description of Course

Founding Fathers

For Class

 

1. Introductions on Angel

Readings:

1.       Christopher Columbus: Extracts from Journal

2.       John Winthrop: A Modell of Christian Charity (1630) (if the original spelling annoys you read this modernized one: A Model of Christian Charity --- by Gov. John Winthrop, 1630

3.       Reading Autobiography Chapter 1

 

 

Week 2

Tuesday 1/23

Thursday 

In class

From Captivity to Celebrity

Feminist Alternatives

For Class

Readings:

  1.  Full Text of John Smith's True Relation
  2. Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca (Excerpts from the Journey –to be posted on Angel)

Readings:

  1. Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz The Answer
  2. Introduction to Catalina Erauso’s Autobiography (Read the intro and the next links to her text)
         

 

 

 

Week 3

Tuesday 1/30

Thursday

In class

Ben Franklin

Ben Franklin

 

1. Reading Autobiography Chapter 2

 

 

For Class

Readings:

Ben Franklin’s Autobiography (Text available on Angel)

 

2. Figuring Benjamin Franklin in American Cultural Memory  Carla Mulford The New England Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 3. (Sep., 1999), pp. 415-443. Available on JSTOR

 

 

Week 4

Tuesday 2/6

Thursday

In class

Frederick Douglass

 Frederick Douglass

 

Close Reading #1 in class

For Class

Readings:

  1. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (Read the e-text available at: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Douglass/Autobiography/)  (Or Buy the Book!)
  2. About Slave Narratives: http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/slave.htm

 

Reading Autobiography Chapter 3

 

 

Week 5

Tuesday 2/13

Thursday

In class

Narratives of Identity and Difference I

Narratives of Identity and Difference II

For Class

Readings:

  1. Zitkala Sa, “The School Days of an Indian Girl” (on e-reserve)
  2. Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa) (Sioux) (1876-1938) at Heath

3.       Reading Autobiography Chapter 4

 
  1. Edith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far) “Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian” (on e-reserve)
  2. Edith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far) at Heath

3.       Reading Autobiography Chapter 5

 

 

Week 6

Tuesday 2/20

Thursday

In class

 Ralph Ellison: When Difference Becomes Invisibility Invisible Man continued

For Class

  Invisible Man

 

 

 

Week 7

Tuesday 2/27

Thursday

In class

The Search for Roots

 Carpentier Continued

For Class

Alejo Carpentier, The Lost Steps

 

 

 

Week 8

Tuesday 3/6

Thursday

In class

Mid-Term

Turn in Mid-term Essays

For Class

 

 

 

Week 9

Tuesday 3/13

Thursday

In class

 Spring Break

Spring Break

For Class

 

 

 

Week 10

Tuesday 3/20

Thursday

In class

Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries

 

Presentation on Guevara

For Class

Read Guevara

 

 

Week 11

Tuesday 3/27

Thursday

In class

Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior Close Reading #2

Presentation on Hong Kingston

For Class

 Read

·         Hong Kingston

·         Reading Autobiography Chapter 6

 

 

Week 12

Tuesday 4/3

Thursday

In class

Audre Lorde Zami: An Other Spelling of My Name

 Presentation on Lorde

For Class

  Read Lorde  

 

Week 13

Tuesday 4/10

Thursday

In class

Ariel Dorfman, Heading South, Looking North

Presentation on Dorfman

For Class

Read Dorfman

 

 

 

Week 14

Tuesday 4/17

Thursday 

In class

John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman

Presentation on Perkins

For Class

Read Perkins

 

 

Week 15

Tuesday 4/24

Thursday

In class

Conclusions

 Final paper meetings

For Class

Work on presentations and final papers

Work on presentations and final papers

 

 

Week 16

Tuesday 5/1

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 7 by 4pm.

 

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Last updated on 01/16/2007