Revised syllabus redux

AmLit 338
Susan M. Schultz
January 23, 2006


Calendar

T, 1/10: Introductions and expectations
Th, 1/12: Read Howl, by Allen Ginsberg [1/15/38, MLKing birthday; 1/16/91: Gulf War I starts]

T, 1/17: Howl:[ Oral Report: NYC mental institutions in the 1950s.]
Th, 1/19: Howl

T, 1/24: Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (story, not book)
Th, 1/26: O’Connor, “The Artificial Nigger” [Oral Report: Civil Rights in the 1950s]

T, 1/31: O’Connor, “Good Country People”
Th, 2/2: Michael Herr, Dispatches [Oral Report: A short history of the Vietnam War]

T, 2/7: Dispatches
Th, 2/9: Dispatches [Oral Report: government use of euphemism during the Vietnam War]

T, 2/14: Yusef Komunyakaa, Dien Cai Dau [Oral Report: The draft in the Vietnam war]
Th, 2/16: Dien Cai Dau

T, 2/21: Dien Cai Dau [5 page paper due]
Th, 2/23: Toni Morrison, Jazz

T, 2/28: Jazz: [Oral Report: the Jazz Age]
Th, 3/2: Jazz

T, 3/7: Prof. Schultz away
Th, 3/9: Prof. Schultz away

T, 3/14: Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs in Heaven [Oral Report: Native Americans and adoption issues]
Th, 3/16: Pigs in Heaven Midterm

T, 3/21: Pigs in Heaven [3/20: anniversary of the Iraq War, 2003]
Th, 3/23:He Leo Hou: Kamau, by Alani Apio [Oral Report: HVB on Hawai`i]

T, 3/28: Spring Break
Th, 3/30: Spring Break

T, 4/4: Kamau [anniversary of ML King’s assassination in 1968]
Th, 4/6: Kamau [oral performance of the text, with commentary]

T, 4/11: Da Mayah, by Lee Cataluna [Oral Report: some aspect of local poliics]
Th, 4/13: Da Mayah

T, 4/18: Da Mayah [Oral performance with commentary]
Th, 4/20: Barbara Jane Reyes, Poeta en San Francisco

T, 4/25: Poeta [Oral Report: What does the Tagalog say?]
Th, 4/27: Poeta

T, 5/2: Last Day of Class