Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Course Readings and Films

Required Texts:



Danticat, Edwidge. Krik? Krak! Random House/Vintage, 1992.






Lahiri, Jhumpa. Unaccustomed Earth. Random House/Vintage, 2009.






Márquez, Gabriel García. Love in the Time of Cholera. Random House/Vintage, 2007.





Morrison, Toni. A Mercy. Random House/Vintage, 2008.




Mwangi, Meja. Carcase for Hounds (coursepack). Your coursepack price = photocopy cost + $1, thanks to the author's extremely generous charge of only $1 in royalties per copy. I hope you will thank Mr. Mwangi for supporting the worldwide study of African literature.



Soyinka, Wole. Death and the King’s Horseman. Norton, 2002.





Required Online Readings (see schedule):

1. Kipury, Naomi. “The Sun and the Moon.” Available online thanks to Jens Finke's Traditional Music and Cultures of Kenya.

2. Neruda, Pablo. “The United Fruit Co.” Available online thanks to The Ashville Poetry Review.


Required Photocopied Readings (provided; see schedule):

1. Chesaina, C. “Hare and Kipsongut,” The Man Who Never Attended Public Gatherings,” and selected Kalenjin proverbs.

2. de Landa, Diego. Selection from Relación de las cosas de Yucatán (Account of Things in Yucatán).

3. Fanon, Frantz. Selection from The Wretched of the Earth.

4. Kipury, Naomi. “The Girl Who Married a Crow,” “The Greedy Man Who Almost Went Hungry,” and selected Maasai proverbs.

5. Neruda, Pablo. “The Beggars.”

6. Tlali, Miriam. “Fud-u-u-a.”


Recommended Text: The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th edition or later.



Required Films (Reserved at Carrier Library; see schedule):


Afrique, je te plumerai (Africa, I'm going to fleece you). Directed by Jean-Marie Téno (videotape #6236).



Como agua para chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate). Directed by Alfonso Arau (DVD #5158).




In the Name of Liberation: Freedom by any Means. Directed by Jon Blair (DVD #957).



Monsoon Wedding. Directed by Mira Nair (DVD #1893).





Witness to Apartheid. Directed by Sharon Sopher (videotape #324).

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