Reading Schedule
Week One
1-19
- Introduction; Computer Lab
- Clickable Caribbean Map. Alternate source:Caribbean Map. (online)
The Prospero-Caliban Complex
Week Two
1-22
- Olaudah Equiano (Nigeria), The Life of Olaudah Equiano . . .: Chapt. II (23-36); Chapt. IV, Section IX (63-65); Chapt. V (66-81).
- Background: Introduction to Post-Colonial Studies (online)
- REPORTS ASSIGNED--see Paper Directions (online)
1-24
- Olaudah Equiano (Nigeria), The Life of Olaudah Equiano . . .: Chapt. VI (82-96); Chapt. VII (97-107).
- Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), A Far Cry from Africa (online)
1-26
- Movie: William Shakespeare (British), The Tempest (124 min.)
- Plot Summary (online)
- Tempest Questions (online)--copy and bring to class.
Week Three
1-29
- Movie: William Shakespeare (British), The Tempest
- Article: Shakespeare's Tempest and the American Indian (online)--read first half (omit the Melville section).
1-31
- Movie: William Shakespeare (British), The Tempest; class discussion.
- William Shakespeare (British), The Tempest, Act I. Scene 2 "The Island. Before Prospero's Cell" (online)--copy and bring to class.
2-02
- Aimé Césaire (Martinique), A Tempest, Acts I-II (7-35).
Week Four
2-05
- Aimé Césaire (Martinique), A Tempest, Act III (37-66).
2-07
- Roger Mais (Jamaica), Red Dirt Don't Wash (online)
- REPORT 1: Slave Trade/Plantation System ____________.
2-09
- Kamau Brathwaite (Barbados),"Colombe" in Middle Passages (9-11) and "Hex" in Ancestors (73-80). (hand-outs)
- REPORT 2: Caribbean Indigenous Peoples ____________.
Week Five
2-12
- Movie: Daniel Defoe (British), Robinson Crusoe (90 min.)
- Plot Summary: Robinson Crusoe: Overview and Commentary (online)
2-14
- Movie: Daniel Defoe (British), Robinson Crusoe
- Article: Mimicry, Ambivalence and Hybridity (online)
2-16
- Discussion of movie.
- Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), Derek Walcott Selections (online)--read "The Castaway" and "Crusoe's Journal" and "The Figure of Crusoe."
- Article: The Real Caribbean: Paradise Stops At the Beach's Edge (online)
- Olive Senior (Jamaica), "Meditation on Yellow" (online) and The Secret of Crusoe's Parrot (online)
- TAKE-HOME EXAM ASSIGNED
Week Six
2-19
- Movie: Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), Pantomime, Act I (26 min.).
- Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), Pantomime, Act I (90-129) (hand-out)
2-21
- Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), Pantomime, Act II (130-169) (hand-out).
2-23
- TAKE-HOME EXAM DUE. No class. Submit a hard copy to my office (Grubbs 450) or email it to me as a .doc attachment: knichols@pittstate.edu.
Colonized Daughters/Heroic Foremothers
Week Seven
2-26
- Movie: Charlotte Bronte (British), Jane Eyre (96 min.)
- Plot Summary: Plot Overview (online)
2-28
- Movie: Charlotte Bronte (British), Jane Eyre
- Article: The Illustrated London News, Colonialism, and Jane Eyre (online)
3-02
- Discussion of movie.
- REPORT 3: Afro-Caribbean and African Religions _____________.
- Begin reading Jean Rhys (Dominica), Wide Sargasso Sea
Week Eight
3-05
- Jean Rhys (Dominica), Wide Sargasso Sea--read over 1/3.
- Reading Group Guide: Study Questions (online)-- copy discussion questions and bring to class.
3-07
- Jean Rhys (Dominica), Wide Sargasso Sea--read over 2/3.
3-09
- Jean Rhys (Dominica), Wide Sargasso Sea--finish.
Week Nine
3-12
- REPORT 4: Slave Rebellions and Rebel Heroes/Heroines _________.
- Michelle Cliff (Jamaica), Clare Savage as a Crossroads Character [from "Caliban's Daughter"] (online).
- Michelle Cliff (Jamaica), Abeng--read 1/4.
3-14
- Michelle Cliff (Jamaica), Abeng--read 1/2.
3-16
- Michelle Cliff (Jamaica), Abeng--read 3/4.
Week Ten
3-19 through 3-23 SPRING BREAK
Week Eleven
3-26
- Michelle Cliff (Jamaica), Abeng--finish.
3-28
- Grace Nichols (Guyana), Of Course When They Ask for Poems About the 'Realities' of Black Women (online)
- Lorna Goodison (Jamaica), Jamaica 1980 (online) and Guinea Woman (online) and Nanny (online)
- Elaine Savory (Barbados), Flame Tree Time (online)
- Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe), I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem--read 1/5.
3-30
- Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe), I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem--read 2/5.
Week Twelve
4-02
- Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe), I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem--read 3/5.
- TAKE-HOME EXAM ASSIGNED.
4-04
- Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe), I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem--read 4/5.
4-06
- Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe), I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem--finish.
Cultures of Resistance
Week Thirteen
4-09
- TAKE-HOME EXAM DUE. No class. Submit a hard copy to my office (Grubbs 450) or email it to me as a .doc attachment: knichols@pittstate.edu.
4-11
- Article: African-Caribbean Resistance Culture: Past and Contemporary (online)
- Michael Anthony (Trinidad/Tobago), "The Chieftain's Carnival" (hand-out)
- REPORT 5: Carnival and Calypso ___________.
4-13
- Michael Anthony (Trinidad/Tobago), "They Better Don't Stop the Carnival" (hand-out)
- REPORT 6: Rastafari and Reggae ______________.
- PAPER 2 ASSIGNED: Naipaul Literary Analysis. Due: Wed., 5/2. See Paper Directions (online).
- Begin reading V. S. Naipaul (Trinidad), Miguel Street--about 40 pages per class period.
Week Fourteen
4-16
Calypso, Reggae, and Dub Poetry: Sound samples are available for several of these, but our university computers may periodically cut out on them.
- The Mighty Sparrow [Slinger Francisco] (Trinidad), The Yankees Back (c. 1960) (online). Sound samples: Mighty Sparrow home page (online)-- click on "Music" and scroll down to "Don Touch Meh President" from Don Stop the Carnival and to "Congo Man."
- Bob Marley (Jamaica), Five Lyrics (online)-- "Africa Unite"; "No Woman No Cry"; "Exodus"; "Redemption Song"; "I Shot the Sheriff." See also Slave Driver (lyrics) (online). Sound samples: Africa Unite (online); No Woman No Cry (online); Exodus; I Shot the Sheriff (online)
- David Rudder (Trinidad/Tobago), Lyrics (online)--"Day of the Warlord"; "Here Comes the West Indies"; "1990"; "High Mas I"; "Beloved." Sound samples: Here Comes the West Indies (online) and 1990 (online).
- Lillian Allen (Jamaica/Toronto), Woman of Many Hands (online)--sound sample available.
- Pamela Mordecai (Jamaica), Caliban Calypso (online)
- Continue reading Naipaul (Trinidad).
4-18
- Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), Ti-Jean and his Brothers, Prologue and Scene 1, in Dream on Monkey Mountain (81-114)
- Continue reading Naipaul (Trinidad).
4-20
- Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), Ti-Jean and his Brothers, Scene 2, in Dream on Monkey Mountain (113-130)
- Continue reading Naipaul (Trinidad).
Week Fifteen
4-23
- Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), Ti-Jean and his Brothers, Scene 3, in Dream on Monkey Mountain (131-66)
- Finish reading Naipaul (Trinidad).
4-25
- Movie: Joseph Zobel (Martinique), Sugar Cane Alley (107 min.)
- Article: Sugar Cane Alley (online). Copy the "Questions for Viewing" in Part 3 and bring them to class.
- Work on Naipaul paper out-of-class.
4-27
- Movie: Joseph Zobel (Martinique), Sugar Cane Alley
- Work on Naipaul paper out-of-class.
Week Sixteen
4-30
- Movie: Joseph Zobel (Martinique), Sugar Cane Alley. Discuss movie.
- Work on Naipaul paper out-of-class.
5-02
- PAPER DUE: Naipaul. Submit hard copy to my office (Grubbs 450) or e-mail it as a .doc attachment. NO CLASS.
5-04
- Opal Palmer Adisa (Jamaica), The Brethren (online).
Week Seventeen
5-07
- Krik? Krak! Tales of a Nightmare (online)
- Edwidge Danticat (Haiti), "Children of the Sea" and "Nineteen Thirty-Seven" in Krik? Krak! (1-49).
5-09
- Edwidge Danticat (Haiti), "Between the Pool and the Gardenias" and "The Missing Peace" in Krik? Krak! (89-122).
- TAKE-HOME EXAM ASSIGNED
5-11
- Edwidge Danticat (Haiti), "Seeing Things Simply" (223-141) and "Epilogue: Women Like Us" in Krik? Krak! (217-224).
TAKE-HOME EXAM DUE: Friday, 5-18. No class. Submit a hard copy to my office (Grubbs 450) or email it to me as a .doc attachment: knichols11@cox.net.
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