NO CLASS MONDAY: Revised Schedule
Posted by christopherconway on April 1, 2007
Response paper 2 update: There is no assigned question or theme. Your response paper is a critical reaction that demonstrates original, analytical thinking. It is written clearly and coherently and is only one page single-spaced. You may write either on Cesaire or Vargas Llosa. Cesaire responses due on April 9. Vargas Llosa on April 16.
April 9: Postcolonialism. Professor Toni Sol. Reading: Notebook of a Return to the Native Land by Aime Cesaire. Secondary Readings:“What is Postcolonialism?”
April 16: The New Novel in Latin America. Professor Georgia Seminet. Readings: The Cubs by Mario Vargas Llosa. Secondary Readings: TBA.
April 23:Social Realism, Marxism and Bertolt Brecht. Professor Lana Rings. Selected Readings by Bertolt Brecht: “The Ballad of the Dead Soldier” (1917), “The Love Market” (1920’s), “Abortion is Illegal” (1931), “Mack the Knife” (1928 from the Threepenny Opera), “Solidarity Song” (1931).; “Marxism” by Sidney Hook, from The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas, Ed. Phillip P. Weiner.
April 30: Postmodernism. Professor Alicia Rueda. Film: TBA. Secondary Readings: TBA.
