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This course will examine post-colonial issues through a close study of fiction and critical texts. We will explore post-colonial texts from Africa, Latin America, and the United States.


Week 1: Introduction
1/14-16 "The Rhetoric of English India" Sara Suleri


Week 2: Murphy. Samuel Beckett
1/21-23


I. Defining the Other


Week 3: Orientalism. Edward Said
1/28-30


Week 4: Pedro Paramo. Juan Rulfo
2/4-6


Week 5: One Hundred Years of Solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2/11-13


Week 6: One Hundred Years of Solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2/18-20 TEST


II. Myths, Histories, and Tales of Post-colonialism.


Week 7: Caribbean Discourse. Edouard Glissant
2/25-27
Annotated bibliography Due


Week 8: Waiting for the Barbarians. J.M. Cotzee
3/4-6


Week 9: Waiting for the Barbarians. J.M. Cotzee
3/11-13 The Tempest. Aime Cesaire


Week 10: The Tempest. Aime Cesaire
3/25-27 TEST




III. Performances and Borders of Post-colonialism.


Week 11: Culture and Truth. Renato Rosaldo
4/1-3


Week 12: Before Night Falls. Reinaldo Arenas
4/8-10


Week 13: I Rigoberta Menchu. Rigoberta Menchu
4/15-17
Research paper 15-20 pp. due


Week 14: The Last Generation. Cherrie Moraga
4/22-24


Week 15: TEST
4/29-5/1


Requirements:
Annotated bibliography 4-5 pp. (20%)
Research paper 15-20 pp. (40%)
Three tests (30 %)
Attendance and Participation (10%)