Course Topics and Paper Deadlines

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