Group I Room Assignment: HC 113
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.
Rod Stewart'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, Buried Mirror, 51-77, 171-182.
7 F. Selections from Las Casas and Sepúlveda (E-R)
10 M. Locke's Second Treatise (E-R)
12 W. Douglass' autobiography in Appiah
14 F. Selections from Marx and Lenin on Imperialism and
Capitalism (E-R)
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).
Mar 3 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/).
5 W. Cooper selections (E-R); Crevecoeur (E-R);
Wendy Rose on
"White Shamanism" (E-R).
7 F. Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-sa) (E-R); Dances with Wolves.
17 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)
19 W. Silko "Yellow Woman" and Erdrich "Red Convertible." (E-R)
21 F. Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist-fight in Heaven (pp. 1-42)
24 M. Lone Ranger and Tonto, (pp. 59-75; 181-190).
26 W. Unit exam.
Terry Hoops's unit:
28 F. Exploring the encounter: Contratación. Columbus's diary. O'Gorman
31 M. Andean Interpretation: Guaman Poma: Creation
(*http://www.kb.dk/elib/mss/poma/)
History of the Incas. The conquest. The colonial world
Apr 2 W. Europe's American Imaginary from More's Utopia
San Martín's Ayacucho pronouncement
4 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
7 M. Society against the state; society against the west: Clastre. Levi-Strauss. Bonfil Bataila
9 W. The critique of developmental utopias: Mariátegui. Che Guevara's journal. Subcomandante Marcos
11 F. The critique of devlopmental utopias: Grillo Fernández
14 M. Tying up loose ends; perhaps a short story.
16 W. Unit exam.
Patrick Duffey's unit:
18 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
21 M. V.S. Naipaul (1932), Loss of Eldorado (11-69) (E-R); Fuentes's "1492: The Crucial Year" (79-89)
23 W. El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616), The Royal Commentaries (Handout). Fuentes's "Conquest and Reconquest" (119-147)
25 F. D.F.Sarmiento (1811-1888), Facundo (1845) (E-R)
28 M. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), "Funes" and "The South" (1944) (E-R)
30 W. Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980), The Lost Steps (1953).
May 2 F. The Lost Steps.
7 M. The Lost Steps.
9 W. Unit exam.
12 M. Large Group final meeting in IGT to discuss Borges' "Pierre Menard." (E-R)