WEEK 1: INTRODUCTORY: GLOBALIZATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM
Tu 1/18
Th 1/20 Appadurai, "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global
Cultural Economy"
WEEK 2: THE VOYAGE OUT I
Tu 1/2 Passage to India
Th 1/27
WEEK 3: THE VOYAGE OUT II
Tu 2/1 M Butterfly
Th 2/4
WEEK 4: MIGRANCY AND POSTCOLONIAL INTELLECTUALS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO AFRICA
Tu 2/8 Katrak; "Colonialism, Imperialism, and Imagined
Homes"; Rushdie, "Imaginary Homelands"
Th 2/10 Articles by and about Wole Soyinka and other African
writers
F 2/11 Noon: Lunch with Soyinka
WEEK 5: KNOWLEDGE-SEEKERS
Tu 2/15 Mary Louise Pratt, "Scratches on the Face of the
Country"
Th 2/17 Selections from Tristes Tropiques
WEEK 6 : NEW FRAMEWORKS: TRANSCULTURATION, HYBRIDITY, CREOLITÉ, MESTIZAJE
Tu 2/22 Articles by Pratt, Anzaldua, Gupta and Ferguson .
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Th 2/24
WEEK 7: TRAVEL, TRAVEL WRITING, AND TOURISM
Tu 2/29 Excerpts from works by Paul Fussell, Mary Louise
Pratt, Pico Iyer
Th 3/2 Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place
WEEK 8: THE VOYAGE IN I
Tu 3/7 Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy
Th 3/9
WEEK 9: THE VOYAGE IN II
Tu 3/28 Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, I-IV
(to p. 247)
Th 3/30
WEEK 10
Tu 4/4 The Satanic Verses, V-IX
Th 4/6
WEEK 11: THE DISPLACEMENTS OF WAR
Tu 4/11 Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Th 4/13
WEEK 12: REFUGEES
Tu 4/18 David Edgar, Pentecost
Th 4/20 Nadine Gordimer, "The Ultimate Safari"; Ken
Saro-Wiwa, excerpt from Sozaboy
WEEK 13: REFLECTION/WORK ON FINAL PROJECTS
Tu 4/25
Th 4/27 Bonnie Urciuoli to visit class
WEEK 14: PEACE CORPS STORIES
Tu 5/2 Excerpts from George Packer, The Village of
Waiting and Susan Lowerre, Under the Neem
Tree
Th 5/4
