I. Introduction to the course
II. The Subaltern
a. The White Tiger
b. essay by Spivak on the subaltern
c. in-class essay on Friday 9/25
III. Freedom and Slavery
a. Pseudolus
b. essay by McCarthy on Pseudolus
c. John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty"
d. Beloved
e. essays by Hegel and Fanon
f. at-home essay due on Tuesday 10/27
IV. Postcolonialism and Feminism
a. Nervous Conditions
b. essays by Achebe and Ngugi
c. in-class essay on Monday 11/16
V. Captors and Captives
a. Bel Canto
b. master vocabulary test on Friday, 12/4
b. at-home essay due on 12/17
VI. Poetry and Resistance
a. poetry by Wyatt, Szymborska, Tsvetaeva, Mandelstam, Akhmatova
b. creative project due on 1/8