Group I Room Assignment: HC 114
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.
Jim Gray'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
Clips from The Lone Ranger in class.
7 F. Mary Rowlandson's Narrative of Captivity
(E-R) and Samson
Occom's "Short Narrative" (E-R). Puritan typology.
10 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/).
12 W. Cooper selections (E-R); Crevecoeur
(E-R); Wendy Rose on
"White Shamanism" (E-R).
14 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
Mar 3 M. Andean Interpretation:
Guaman Poma: Creation (*http://www.kb.dk/elib/mss/poma/). History of the Incas. The conquest. The colonial world
5 W. Europe's American Imaginary
from More's Utopia . San Martín's Ayacucho pronouncement
7 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
17 M. Society against the state; society against the west:
Clastre. Levi-Strauss. Bonfil Bataila
19 W. The critique of developmental utopias:
Mariátegui. Che Guevara's journal. Subcomandante Marcos
21 F. The critique of devlopmental utopias: Grillo Fernández
24 M. Tying up loose ends; perhaps a short story.
26 W. Unit exam.
Patrick Duffey's unit:
31 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
2 W. Naipaul's The Loss of Eldorado (11-69) (E-R); Fuentes, "1492: The Crucial Year" (79-89)
Apr 4 F. El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616), The Royal Commentaries (Handout). Fuentes's "Conquest and Reconquest" (119-147)
7 M. D.F.Sarmiento (1811-1888), Facundo (1845) (E-R)
9 W. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), "Funes" and "The South" (1944) (E-R)
11 F. Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980), The Lost Steps (1953).
14 M. The Lost Steps.
16 W. The Lost Steps.
18 F. Unit exam.
Rod Stewart's unit:
18 F. Selections from Las Casas and Sepúlveda (E-R)
21 M. Locke's Second Treatise (E-R)
23 W. Douglass' autobiography in Appiah
25 F. Selections from Marx and Lenin on Imperialism and
Capitalism (E-R)
28 M. Selections from Mill's On Liberty (E-R)
30 W. Roger Hatch "American Racism" (E-R) and/or Bill Lawson
on "fixed minorities" (E-R).
May 2 F. Larsen, Passing, Part I, 7-47.
7 M. Larsen, Passing, Part II, 51-114.
9 W. Unit exam.
12 M. Large Group final meeting in IGT to discuss Borges' "Pierre Menard." (E-R)