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)

Rod Stewart's unit:
 

9 M  Aristotle "On Women and Slavery" (E-R)

11 W "Just wars" in Europe and the New World

·Requerimiento, http://www.dickinson.edu/~borges/Resources-Requerimiento.htm

·Papal Decree Inter Caetera, http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/indig-inter-caetera.html

·Valladolid Debate (las Casas/Sepúlveda)       E-R
·Geoffrey Parker, "The Etiquette of Atrocity" E-R

13  F  A 17^th century  Dissenter, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz  and Jovita González (E-R) 

·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

http://www.wsu.edu:8001/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/cruz.html

16  M    Locke's Second Treatise

Modern Liberalism I: Social Contract

Locke http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1651-1700/locke/ECCG/governxx.htm

(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)  

18  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)

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

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

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

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

Mar 1 M  Larsen, Passing, Part II, 51-114.

3 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)

5 F  Rod Stewart's unit exam

Spring Break

Jim Gray's unit

15 M       Reading from Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), "Sancho and Ricote" Part II, Chapter 54, The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha; Quixote reading: http://erasmus.austincollege.edu/duffey/hwc55/reading1.html .
View the Lone Ranger episode in class.

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

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

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

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

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

29 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)

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

Apr 2  F     Read Silko's "Yellow Woman" (E-R, Reading 10) and Erdrich "The Red Convertible." (E-R, Reading 11)

5  M      Read selected stories in Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist-fight in Heaven.  TBA

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

9  F       Patrick Duffey's unit:  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

12 M Jim Gray's unit exam

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

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

26   M   The Lost Steps, pp. 76-157.

28 W  The Lost Steps,  pp. 158-238.

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

May 3  M  The Storyteller, pp. 70-108; 146-188.

5  W  The Storyteller, pp. 235-246.

7 F  Patrick Duffey's unit exam

10 connections, evaluations (Hoxie Thompson)