| Date |
Reading |
| 8/31 |
Introduction |
| 9/2 |
Bjorklund, chapters one and two |
| 9/6 |
Bjorklund, chapter three; web reading:
Edwards, Personal Narrative (required) |
| 9/7 |
Thomas, selections from Autobiography |
| 9/9 |
Rowlandson (in Classic): 19-50 |
| 9/12 |
Rowlandson (in Classic): 50-69 |
| 9/14 |
Bjorklund, chapter four; Twain (in Classic): 328-60 |
| 9/16 |
Twain (in Classic): 361-412 |
| 9/19 |
Douglass (in Classic): 229-80 |
| 9/21 |
Douglass (in Classic): 280-327 |
| 9/23 |
Continue discussion of Douglass (in Classic) |
| 9/25 |
Special Event, Sunday evening, Dr. Gordon S. Wood, lecture
on "The American Enlightenment" |
| 9/26 |
Franklin (in Classic): 70-134 |
| 9/28 |
Franklin (in Classic): 141-56 |
| 9/30 |
Bjorklund, chapter six; web reading: Du Bois, "Of Our
Spiritual Strivings"
(Chapter I)
and "The Passing of the First-Born" (Chapter 11), from
W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of
Black
Folk (required) |
| 10/3 |
Draft due for workshop on Essay One |
| 10/5 |
Essay One due; Zitkala-Sa (in Classic): 413-41 |
| 10/7 |
Zitkala-Sa (in Classic): 441-62 |
| 10/10 |
Fall Break |
| 10/12 |
Friedman, "Women's Autobiographical Selves" (handout); web
reading:
Ashbridge, Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth
Ashbridge (required) |
| 10/14 |
Class does not meet |
| 10/17 |
Buss, "Reading for the Double Discourse" (in Brownley and
Kimmich, Women in Autobiography): 87-112 (on reserve at
Mantor Library) |
| 10/19 |
Survivors of the Holocaust. Dir. Steven Spielberg.
Videocassette. Turner Original Productions, 1995 |
| 10/21 |
Class does not meet |
| 10/24 |
Response paper due; Spiegelman, Maus, Volume I |
| 10/26 |
Spiegelman, Maus, Volume II |
| 10/28 |
Continue discussion of Maus |
| 10/31 |
Continue discussion of Maus |
| 11/2 |
Zailckas, Smashed |
| 11/4 |
Zailckas, Smashed |
| 11/7 |
Zailckas, Smashed |
| 11/9 |
Lionnet, "The Politics and Aesthetics of Mestissage" (handout) |
| 11/11 |
Cha, Dictee |
| 11/14 |
Cha, Dictee |
| 11/16 |
Cha, Dictee |
| 11/18 |
Draft due for workshop on Essay Two |
| 11/21 |
Essay #2 due; Torres, "The Construction of Self in U.S.
Latina Autobiographies" (handout) |
| 11/23-25 |
Thanksgiving Break |
| 11/28 |
Cantu, Canicula |
| 11/30 |
Cantu, Canicula |
| 12/2 |
Cantu, Canicula |
| 12/5 |
Prepare for Final Exam |
| 12/7 |
Class meets from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in Roberts 131 to
view I'm
the One that I Want |
| 12/9 |
Discuss I'm the One that I Want |
| 12/16 |
FINAL EXAM, 1:00-3:00 p.m., Friday, December 16
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