Feb. 2  M       Introduction.  Diego Velázquez's Las meninas.  (Hoxie Thompson Auditorium)

4  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  (Hoxie Thompson Auditorium)

6 F                  Video, Carlos Fuentes's The Buried Mirror  (Hoxie Thompson Auditorium)

Jim Gray's unit:

11 W  Read Mary Rowlandson's Narrative of Captivity (E-R, Reading 1)

13  F  Read Hawthorne's "Maypole of Merry Mount" and "Mrs. Hutchinson" (E-R, Reading 6)

16  M  Read Samson Occom's "Short Narrative"(E-R, Reading 2) and Crevecoeur's "What Is an American?"  (E-R, Reading 3).

18  W  Read James Fenimore Cooper, from The Pioneers--"Mount Vision" and "The Pigeon Shoot" (E-R, Reading 4)

20  F  Read James Fenimore Cooper, from Last of the Mohicans and The Pioneers  (E-R, Reading 5)

23  M  Read Mark Twain's "Digger Indians" from Roughing It (E-R, Reading 7), "Black Elk Speaks" (E-R, Reading 8), and Gertrude Bonnin selection (E-R, Reading 9)

25 W  View (in class) excerpts from Dances with Wolves

27 F     Read Silko's "Yellow Woman" (E-R, Reading 10) and Erdrich "The Red Convertible." (E-R, Reading 11)

3     W        Read selected stories in Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist-fight in Heaven.  TBA

5     F        Jim Gray's unit exam

Spring Break

Patrick Duffey's unit:

15 M  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

17 W  V.S. Naipaul (1932), Loss of Eldorado (11-69) (E-R)

19 F  El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616), The Royal Commentaries (E-R).

22 M  Sarmiento (1811-1888), Facundo (1845) (E-R)

24 W  Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), "Funes" and "The South" (1944) (E-R)

26   F   Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980), The Lost Steps (1953), beginning to p. 75.

29 M   The Lost Steps, pp. 76-157.

31  W  The Lost Steps,  pp. 158-238.

Apr 2  F  The Lost Steps,  pp. 239-278.  Mario Vargas Llosa (b. 1936), The Storyteller (1987), beginning to p. 36.

5  M  The Storyteller, pp. 70-108; 146-188.

7  W  The Storyteller, pp. 235-246.

9  F  Rod Stewart's unit:  Aristotle on women and slavery (E-Reserve)

12 M Patrick Duffey's unit exam

·E-R: Sor Juana, "Reply to Sor Philothea";

·Jovita González, "Shades of the 10^th Muses"; *video, I,Worst of All
 

Background: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sorjuana/Chronology.html

19  M   Modern Liberalism I: Social Contract

(Chapters 1-5, Chapter 9;paragraphs 175-176 and 196 from Chapter 16, and then paragraphs 222, 240-242 from Chapter 19 will be sent as an email attachment)

21  W   New World Chattel Slavery
 

·Douglass's autobiography in Appiah;

·Thomas Jefferson, http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/writings/slavery.html

Background: see articles, "Slavery," and "Slave Trade," in Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History (Abell Library Reference section)
 

23   F  Critique of capitalism: Alienation          
Marx, http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MODERN/ALIEN.HTM

26   M  Modern liberalism II: Tyranny of the majority  
 John Stuart Mill, http://www.uwichill.edu.bb/bnccde/_e&ae/johnstuartmill.htm

28 W   Roger Hatch, "American Racism" (E-reserve)
               Bill Lawson on fixed minorities (E-reserve)

30 F   Larsen, Passing, Part I, 7-47.

May 3    M          Larsen, Passing, Part II, 51-114.

5  W  (Not-)writing the Holocaust of European Jews

Paul Celan, "Death Fugue", http://www.celan-projekt.de/todesfuge-englisch.html
George Kren, "The Holocaust as History" (E-R)

7 F  Rod Stewart's unit exam

10 M  connections, evaluations (Hoxie Thompson)