Fall2023 Course Schedule
WEEK ONE
Aug 29 (Tue): Introduction to the Course / Discussion
Syllabus and Course Policies
Women’s Resistance Poetry from Central America
June Beer, “Love poem,” (Hopkinson, 1989, 50)
Lily Guardia, “A Child Has Died.” Poem. Costa Rica
Aug 31 (Thurs): Excerpts from Malika Booker’s Pepper Seed: “Warning,” “Pepper Sauce,” “Red Ants Bite”
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WEEK TWO
Sept 5 (Tues): Read: So Long a Letter (Chapter 1-4)
Life of Ba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwoF5- mHbQw
*****Groups Assigned Today
Sep 7 (Thurs): Read: So Long a Letter (Chapter 5-9)
Watch: “Senegal and Polygamy”
WEEK THREE
Sept 12 (Tues): Read: “Finding Self and Independence in Africa”
Read: So Long a Letter (Chapter10-15)
Sept 14 (Thurs): Due: Group 1 Presentation
Read: So Long a Letter (Chapter 16-20)
WEEK FOUR
Sept 19 (Tues): Read: So Long a Letter (Chapter 21-24)
Sept 21 (Thurs): Read: “Negritude, Feminism and the Quest for Identity”
Read: So Long a Letter (Chapter 25-27)
Due: Discussion Board Post
WEEK FIVE
Sept 26 (Tues) Read: Love, Anger, Madness (pp. 1-20)
Watch: Haitian women of History- Marie Vieux Chauvet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ-k4RTEpxQ
Sept 28 (Thurs) Due: Group 2 Presentation
Read: Love, Anger, Madness (pp.21-40)
WEEK SIX
Oct 3 (Tues) Read: Love, Anger, Madness (pp. 41-60)
Oct 5 (Thurs) Read: Love, Anger, Madness (pp. 61-80)
Due: Discussion Board Post due
WEEK SEVEN
Oct 10 (Tues) No Class
Oct 12 (Thurs) Due: Group 3 Presentation
Read: Love Anger Madness (pp. 81-100)
WEEK EIGHT
Oct 17 (Tues) Read: Love Anger Madness (pp. 101-115)
Due: Group 4 Presentation
Oct 19 (Thurs) Read: Love Anger Madness (pp. 116-136)
WEEK NINE
Oct 24 (Tues) Read: Love Anger Madness (pp. 137-147)
Oct 26 (Thurs) “Chauvet’s ex/isle”
Read: Love Anger Madness (pp. 148-155)
Due: Short Paper #1
WEEK TEN
Oct 31 (Tues) Read: Push Chapter 1
Nov 2 (Thurs) Read: Push Chapter 2
Due: Discussion Board Post
WEEK ELEVEN
Nov 7 (Tues) Read: Push Chapter 3
Due: Group 5 Presentation
Nov 9 (Thurs) Read: Push Chapter 4
WEEK TWELVE
Nov 14 (Tues) Read: “The Youngest Doll”
Nov 16 (Thurs) Read: “The Poisoned Story”
WEEK THIRTEEN
Nov 21 (Tues) Read: Lucy “Poor Visitor”
Due: Short Paper #2
Nov 23 (Thurs) Thanksgiving
WEEK FOURTEEN
Nov 28 (Tues) Read: Lucy “Mariah”
Read: Veronica Majerol. “Jamaica Kincaid’s “Lucy” and the Aesthetics of Disidentification.”
Nov. 30 (Thurs) Read: Lucy “The Tongue”
WEEK FIFTEEN
Dec 5 (Tues) Read: Lucy “Cold Heart”
Dec 7 (Thurs) Read: Lucy “Lucy”
Due: Discussion Board Post
WEEK SIXTEEN
Dec 12 (Tues) Revision