HWC 55 -- SYLLABUS FOR GROUP I Spring 2003

Group I Room Assignment: AD 209

Daily Assignments:

Texts: Some are to be purchased, some will be On Electronic Reserve (E-R); those indicated with asterisk (*) can be found on-line.

Feb 3 M. Large group meeting in IG Theatre; course overview and discussion of Velasquez's Las meninas.

Patrick Duffey's unit:

5 W. Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), "Sancho and Ricote" Part II, Chapter 54, The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha; unit intro. Quixote reading: http://erasmus.austincollege.edu/duffey/hwc55/reading1.html

Also read Fuentes's Buried Mirror, 51-77; 171-182.

7 F. Quixote: "Mambrino's Helmet" (I: 21, 25, 44-46) http://erasmus.austincollege.edu/duffey/hwc55/reading2.html; and

"Barcelona" (II, 59). http://erasmus.austincollege.edu/duffey/hwc55/reading3.html

10 M. V.S. Naipaul (1932), Loss of Eldorado (11-69) (E-R); Fuentes's "1492: The Crucial Year" (79-89)

10 M. 7-9 PM Required Viewing of Fuentes Video in Hoxie Thompson Auditorium

12 W. El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616), The Royal Commentaries (Handout). Fuentes's "Conquest and Reconquest" (119-147)

14 F. D.F. Sarmiento (1811-1888), Facundo (1845) (E-R)

17 M. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) "Funes" and "The South" (1944) (E-R)

19 W. Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980), The Lost Steps (1953)

21 F. The Lost Steps.

24 M. The Lost Steps.

26 W. Unit exam.

Rod Stewart's unit:

28 F. Selections from Las Casas and Sepúlveda (E-R)

Mar 3 M. Locke's Second Treatise (E-R)

5 W. Douglass' autobiography in Appiah

7 F. Selections from Marx and Lenin on Imperialism and Capitalism (E-R)

Spring Break

17 M. Selections from Mill's On Liberty (E-R)

19 W. Roger Hatch "American Racism" (E-R) and/or Bill Lawson on "fixed minorities" (E-R).

21 F. Larsen, Passing, Part I, 7-47

24 M. Larsen, Passing, Part II, 51-114

26 W. Unit exam.

Jim Gray's unit:

28 F. Mary Rowlandson's Narrative of Captivity (E-R) and Samson
Occom's "Short Narrative" (E-R).

31 M. Hawthorne, "Mrs. Anne Hutchinson" (E-R) (*http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/mrsh.html); and "Maypole of Merry Mount" (E-R) (*http://www.online-literature.com/hawthorne/145/).

Apr 2 W. Cooper selections (E-R); Crevecoeur (E-R); Wendy Rose on "White Shamanism" (E-R).

4 F. Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-sa) (E-R); Dances with Wolves.

7 M. Twain's "Digger Indians" from Roughing It (E-R) and Black Elk Speaks (E-R). Alexie's "Trial" (93), "Horseshoe Pitch" (145), and "Imagining" (149)

9 W. Silko "Yellow Woman" and Erdrich "Red Convertible." (E-R)

11 F. Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist-fight in Heaven (pp. 1-42)

14 M. Lone Ranger and Tonto, (pp. 59-75; 181-190).

16 W. Unit exam.

Terry Hoops's unit:

18 F. Exploring the encounter:

Contratación. Columbus's diary. O'Gorman

21 M. Andean Interpretation:

Guaman Poma: Creation (*http://www.kb.dk/elib/mss/poma/)

History of the Incas. The conquest. The colonial world

23 W. Europe's American Imaginary

from More's Utopia. San Martín's Ayacucho pronouncement

25 F. Culture of violence, space of terror

Galindo: Andean revolutions and Andean utopias

Taussig: Roger Casement (found in JStor-Abell:

"Culture of Terror -- Space of Death," Comp. Studies in Society and History, Vol 26, No 3,

July 1984, pp. 467-497.) Timmerman

28 M. Society against the state; society against the west:

Clastre. Levi-Strauss. Bonfil Bataila

30 W. The critique of developmental utopias:

Mariátegui. Che Guevara's journal. Subcomandante Marcos

May 2 F. The critique of devlopmental utopias:

Grillo Fernández

7 M. Tying up loose ends; perhaps a short story.

9 W. Unit exam.

12 M. Large Group final meeting in IGT to discuss Borges' "Pierre Menard." (E-R)