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Discussion leading and responses on Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions
March 4, 2010
Paper 1 Group 3
Write a paper discussing Dangarembga’s novel under rubrics: Domination and hegemony,
colonial education and traditional education, the native intellectual, or the condition of the
native. Bring 3 copies to class for group evaluation. Final essay will be due one week later
Discussion leading and responses on predetermined aspects of Ferdinand Oyono’s
Houseboy
March 11, 2010
Conclusion of discussion of Houseboy
Midterm
Mar. 25, 2010
Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India: leading discussion and responses on predetermined aspects
of the first part of Cracking India (chapters 1 through16) for the first hour and 20 minutes
Library session to follow from 7:30 PM. Professor Boyd Koehler of Lindell Library will
help us identify research for our paper 2. Plan to use this session to do a comprehensive
search for source materials.
April 1, 2010
Paper 2
Presentation of your research for paper 2 on the fiction of Achebe and Bapsi Sidhwa
exploring issues of colonialism, gender, poverty, exploitation, domination, and hegemony.
Everyone will come to class prepared to present a short summary of the essay to class. Final
essay will be due on April 15
April 8, 2010
Discussion leading and responses on predetermined aspects of Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny
Boy
April 15, 2010
Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers (Film)
Read Frantz Fanon’s “Algeria Unveiled” (Handout)
Discussion of “Algeria Unveiled.”
April 22, 2010
Three moments and postcolonial fiction
Final exam