Reading Schedule

Week One

1-19

Introduction; Computer Lab
Clickable Caribbean Map. Alternate source:Caribbean Map. (online)

The Prospero-Caliban Complex

Week Two

1-22

Olaudah Equiano (Nigeria), The Life of Olaudah Equiano . . .: Chapt. II (23-36); Chapt. IV, Section IX (63-65); Chapt. V (66-81).
Background: Introduction to Post-Colonial Studies (online)
REPORTS ASSIGNED--see Paper Directions (online)

1-24

Olaudah Equiano (Nigeria), The Life of Olaudah Equiano . . .: Chapt. VI (82-96); Chapt. VII (97-107).
Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), A Far Cry from Africa (online)

1-26

Movie: William Shakespeare (British), The Tempest (124 min.)
Plot Summary (online)
Tempest Questions (online)--copy and bring to class.

Week Three

1-29

Movie: William Shakespeare (British), The Tempest
Article: Shakespeare's Tempest and the American Indian (online)--read first half (omit the Melville section).

1-31

Movie: William Shakespeare (British), The Tempest; class discussion.
William Shakespeare (British), The Tempest, Act I. Scene 2 "The Island. Before Prospero's Cell" (online)--copy and bring to class.

2-02

Aimé Césaire (Martinique), A Tempest, Acts I-II (7-35).

Week Four

2-05

Aimé Césaire (Martinique), A Tempest, Act III (37-66).

2-07

Roger Mais (Jamaica), Red Dirt Don't Wash (online)
REPORT 1: Slave Trade/Plantation System ____________.

2-09

Kamau Brathwaite (Barbados),"Colombe" in Middle Passages (9-11) and "Hex" in Ancestors (73-80). (hand-outs)
REPORT 2: Caribbean Indigenous Peoples ____________.

Week Five

2-12

Movie: Daniel Defoe (British), Robinson Crusoe (90 min.)
Plot Summary: Robinson Crusoe: Overview and Commentary (online)

2-14

Movie: Daniel Defoe (British), Robinson Crusoe
Article: Mimicry, Ambivalence and Hybridity (online)

2-16

Discussion of movie.
Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), Derek Walcott Selections (online)--read "The Castaway" and "Crusoe's Journal" and "The Figure of Crusoe."
Article: The Real Caribbean: Paradise Stops At the Beach's Edge (online)
Olive Senior (Jamaica), "Meditation on Yellow" (online) and The Secret of Crusoe's Parrot (online)
TAKE-HOME EXAM ASSIGNED

Week Six

2-19

Movie: Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), Pantomime, Act I (26 min.).
Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), Pantomime, Act I (90-129) (hand-out)

2-21

Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), Pantomime, Act II (130-169) (hand-out).

2-23

TAKE-HOME EXAM DUE. No class. Submit a hard copy to my office (Grubbs 450) or email it to me as a .doc attachment: knichols@pittstate.edu.

Colonized Daughters/Heroic Foremothers

Week Seven

2-26

Movie: Charlotte Bronte (British), Jane Eyre (96 min.)
Plot Summary: Plot Overview (online)

2-28

Movie: Charlotte Bronte (British), Jane Eyre
Article: The Illustrated London News, Colonialism, and Jane Eyre (online)

3-02

Discussion of movie.
REPORT 3: Afro-Caribbean and African Religions _____________.
Begin reading Jean Rhys (Dominica), Wide Sargasso Sea

Week Eight

3-05

Jean Rhys (Dominica), Wide Sargasso Sea--read over 1/3.
Reading Group Guide: Study Questions (online)-- copy discussion questions and bring to class.

3-07

Jean Rhys (Dominica), Wide Sargasso Sea--read over 2/3.

3-09

Jean Rhys (Dominica), Wide Sargasso Sea--finish.

Week Nine

3-12

REPORT 4: Slave Rebellions and Rebel Heroes/Heroines _________.
Michelle Cliff (Jamaica), Clare Savage as a Crossroads Character [from "Caliban's Daughter"] (online).
Michelle Cliff (Jamaica), Abeng--read 1/4.

3-14

Michelle Cliff (Jamaica), Abeng--read 1/2.

3-16

Michelle Cliff (Jamaica), Abeng--read 3/4.

Week Ten

3-19 through 3-23 SPRING BREAK

Week Eleven

3-26

Michelle Cliff (Jamaica), Abeng--finish.

3-28

Grace Nichols (Guyana), Of Course When They Ask for Poems About the 'Realities' of Black Women (online)
Lorna Goodison (Jamaica), Jamaica 1980 (online) and Guinea Woman (online) and Nanny (online)
Elaine Savory (Barbados), Flame Tree Time (online)
Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe), I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem--read 1/5.

3-30

Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe), I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem--read 2/5.

Week Twelve

4-02

Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe), I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem--read 3/5.
TAKE-HOME EXAM ASSIGNED.

4-04

Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe), I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem--read 4/5.

4-06

Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe), I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem--finish.

Cultures of Resistance

Week Thirteen

4-09

TAKE-HOME EXAM DUE. No class. Submit a hard copy to my office (Grubbs 450) or email it to me as a .doc attachment: knichols@pittstate.edu.

4-11

Article: African-Caribbean Resistance Culture: Past and Contemporary (online)
Michael Anthony (Trinidad/Tobago), "The Chieftain's Carnival" (hand-out)
REPORT 5: Carnival and Calypso ___________.

4-13

Michael Anthony (Trinidad/Tobago), "They Better Don't Stop the Carnival" (hand-out)
REPORT 6: Rastafari and Reggae ______________.
PAPER 2 ASSIGNED: Naipaul Literary Analysis. Due: Wed., 5/2. See Paper Directions (online).
Begin reading V. S. Naipaul (Trinidad), Miguel Street--about 40 pages per class period.

Week Fourteen

4-16

Calypso, Reggae, and Dub Poetry: Sound samples are available for several of these, but our university computers may periodically cut out on them.

The Mighty Sparrow [Slinger Francisco] (Trinidad), The Yankees Back (c. 1960) (online). Sound samples: Mighty Sparrow home page (online)-- click on "Music" and scroll down to "Don Touch Meh President" from Don Stop the Carnival and to "Congo Man."
Bob Marley (Jamaica), Five Lyrics (online)-- "Africa Unite"; "No Woman No Cry"; "Exodus"; "Redemption Song"; "I Shot the Sheriff." See also Slave Driver (lyrics) (online). Sound samples: Africa Unite (online); No Woman No Cry (online); Exodus; I Shot the Sheriff (online)
David Rudder (Trinidad/Tobago), Lyrics (online)--"Day of the Warlord"; "Here Comes the West Indies"; "1990"; "High Mas I"; "Beloved." Sound samples: Here Comes the West Indies (online) and 1990 (online).
Lillian Allen (Jamaica/Toronto), Woman of Many Hands (online)--sound sample available.
Pamela Mordecai (Jamaica), Caliban Calypso (online)
Continue reading Naipaul (Trinidad).

4-18

Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), Ti-Jean and his Brothers, Prologue and Scene 1, in Dream on Monkey Mountain (81-114)
Continue reading Naipaul (Trinidad).

4-20

Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), Ti-Jean and his Brothers, Scene 2, in Dream on Monkey Mountain (113-130)
Continue reading Naipaul (Trinidad).

Week Fifteen

4-23

Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), Ti-Jean and his Brothers, Scene 3, in Dream on Monkey Mountain (131-66)
Finish reading Naipaul (Trinidad).

4-25

Movie: Joseph Zobel (Martinique), Sugar Cane Alley (107 min.)
Article: Sugar Cane Alley (online). Copy the "Questions for Viewing" in Part 3 and bring them to class.
Work on Naipaul paper out-of-class.

4-27

Movie: Joseph Zobel (Martinique), Sugar Cane Alley
Work on Naipaul paper out-of-class.

Week Sixteen

4-30

Movie: Joseph Zobel (Martinique), Sugar Cane Alley. Discuss movie.
Work on Naipaul paper out-of-class.

5-02

PAPER DUE: Naipaul. Submit hard copy to my office (Grubbs 450) or e-mail it as a .doc attachment. NO CLASS.

5-04

Opal Palmer Adisa (Jamaica), The Brethren (online).

Week Seventeen

5-07

Krik? Krak! Tales of a Nightmare (online)
Edwidge Danticat (Haiti), "Children of the Sea" and "Nineteen Thirty-Seven" in Krik? Krak! (1-49).

5-09

Edwidge Danticat (Haiti), "Between the Pool and the Gardenias" and "The Missing Peace" in Krik? Krak! (89-122).
TAKE-HOME EXAM ASSIGNED

5-11

Edwidge Danticat (Haiti), "Seeing Things Simply" (223-141) and "Epilogue: Women Like Us" in Krik? Krak! (217-224).

TAKE-HOME EXAM DUE: Friday, 5-18. No class. Submit a hard copy to my office (Grubbs 450) or email it to me as a .doc attachment: knichols@pittstate.edu.

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