English 398  –  Spring 2008
SCHEDULE
Mares - Fletcher 313 x623 Home Requirements

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JANUARY 16  Introduction

21 Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts  ––> Bring your Reading Logs!

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Cover by Vanessa Bell
Virginia Woolf Seminar
Rose Norman, Univ. of Alabama
Between the Acts Links
Elisa Kay Sparks, Clemson Univ
.

23 Woolf
28 Woolf
30 Woolf / Samuel Beckett, Molloy
FEBRUARY
4
Beckett
6
Beckett––> Submit Reading Logs in class

11 Beckett – Samuel Beckett Resources
                                             
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13 Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart


18  Achebe          nigeria

20 Achebe – Achebe: An Overview/ Achebe's Nigeria
 Achebe & Things Fall Apart


25 Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea    voodoo VODUN (a.k.a. Voodoo)

    dominica

27 Rhys  –
 Rhys Overview  – Carribean Country Studies 

MARCH
3 Rhys/
 Bapsi Sidhwa, Cracking India (1988)

5 Sidhwa––> Midterm Audit due by 5:30 p.m., Friday, March 7

                                       india


17 Sidhwa – Sidhwa at Emory  sidhwa icon  Pakistan
 Pakistan Virtual Library

19 Sidhwa + Scenes from Deepa Mehta's film, Earth 1947

24 Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

26 Atwood   catscover  
Atwood Home site 

31 Atwood
APRIL 2 Atwood

7 Don DeLillo, Falling Man
9 DeLillo                 
wtc  smallBlur (Ji Lee, Copyright NYT, 2007)
DeLillo's America

[––> Friday, April 11: 7-9 pp. paper due by 5:00 p.m. ]


14 DeLillo –  Falling Man Overview   
 
16 DeLillo (ending) / Zakes Mda,   cion

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Abstract
of paper due in class.

21 MdaResponses to abstracts due in class.

23 Mda  quilta   Underground Railroad and the Quilt Code

28 Mda
Schedule presentations. Course evaluations.

[––>Tues., April 29: Portfolios + final retrospective entries by 5 p.m.]


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