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Dr Cori Adler, Fall 2010
Cornish College of the Arts
Humanities and Sciences Department
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Global Dialogues: Self & Other in International Literature & Film
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Course Schedule
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… every day: current Reading Packet, notebook w/class notes & handouts (incl. syllabus & schedule)
… when assigned (in schedule or assignment description): Norton Field Guide
… workshop/peer review days: the assignment description, hard copies of your paper (# specified in schedule), all earlier versions with comments incl. mine and classmates’, Norton Field Guide.
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Monday / Wednesday / Friday / FYI’s &Don’t forget!’s
Week 1 9/6-10 / Labor Day / First Class
Course Intro / Read: Norton ch 21 “Writing As Inquiry”
Field Trip
Be on time ! We will leave shortly after 1:30 and return by 4:20. Wear walking shoes and dress for weather. / The Washington Bus, a youth advocacy group, will be holding a voter registration drive at Cornish on Th 10/16 at Kerry and F 10/17 in the Café, 12:00 – 1:00 pm.
Week 2
9/13-17 / Globe, Global, Globalism, Globalization / Self Meets Other / Begin reading “Death and the King’s Horseman” (handout) which is quite long, due 9/29.
Film (in class Mon & Wed): Dirty Pretty Things -Stephen Frears (UK, 2002) - with stops for lecture and discussion. / Read: Norton Part 1 (pgs 1-18)
Consider: What seems to be Frears’ purpose, audience, stance…? / Read (handouts) à 1st Engaged Reader Journal (ERJ) – due today
Salman Rushdie (India, UK) “The Perforated Sheet”
Yehuda Amichai (Israel) “Temporary Poem of My Time”
Carolyn Forché (US, El Salvador) “The Colonel”
Week 3
9/20-24 / The Power of Language / Buy the reading packet(s) !
(see syllabus pg 2).
Read à ERJ 2
William Lutz, “Nothing In Life is Certain Except Negative Patient Care Outcome and Revenue Enhancement”
http://www.cornish.edu/library click on HS 119 Integrated Studies – Shared Readings for all class sections. / Read: Norton ch. 9 “Arguing…” and ch 12 “Evaluating…” Which do you think best describes Lutz’s genre?
Field trip to “The Power of Language: Doublespeak!”
installation / Due: Death & Taxes paper draft 1. Bring 3 copies (1 for Cori; 2 for Monday’s workshop)
Film (in class): V for Vendetta - James McTeigue (Australia, US, 2002)
Extra Credit: Friday, September 24th Reel Cinema, Real Issues 6:00PM - MCC 303
A screening of Cradle Will Rock (Tim Robbins,1999), followed by a discussion about free speech & censorship and free pizza! Stay for the whole event and get a Get Out of 1 Friday Film & Discussion Free card* from Cori.
* non-transferable, expires 12/17/2010, monetary value: priceless (like knowledge itself)
All reading assignments from this point forward are from the Course Reading Packets unless specified.
Monday / Wednesday / Friday / FYI’s &Don’t forget!’s
Week 4 9/27- 10/1 / Colonization: Within and Without / Due: final Death & Taxes paper
In class: Doublespeak Presentations (transcripts to Cori) / Lots of reading and a paper due next week!
Read à ERJ 3:
Josephina Pla (Paraguay) “To Seize the Earth”
Shashi Tharoor (India) “A Raj Quartet”
Minal Hajratwala (U.S. ) “Colonization”
Read Norton ch 26 & 27
In class: Death & Taxes draft workshop / Read à ERJ 4:
Wole Soyinka (Nigeria) “Death and the King’s Horseman”
In class: dramatic reading and discussion
Week 5 10/4-8 / Library Visit
Meet at 4:30 in the Cornish Library
MCC 2nd floor
Read Norton chapters that go with Myself & Another paper assignment (ch 18 & 39) / “Once Upon a Time…”
Read à ERJ 5:
Angela Carter (UK) “In the Company of Wolves”
Olga Broumas (Greece) “Little Red Riding Hood”
Sue Owen (US) “Trouble.
Italo Calvino (Italy) “All at One Point” & “The Aquatic Uncle”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Argentina) “The Sea of Lost Time” / Film (in class):
Pan’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro (Mexico, 2007)
Due: Myself & Another essay, draft 1 and writer reflection.
Week 6
10/11-15 / Imagining Oneself as (An)Other / Colonization Within & Without (reprise)
Read à ERJ 6:
Joy Harjo (US, Creek) “Strange Fruit”
Yusef Komunyakaa (US) “Boat People”
Audre Lorde (US) “This Urn …”
Jose Eduardo Agualusa (Angola) “The Foreigner”
Tadeus Borowski (Poland) “The Man with the Package” / Readà ERJ 7:
Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina) “August 25, 1983”
Carmen Naranjo (Costa Rica) “Symbiotic Encounter”
Sampurna Chattarji (India) “All the Goddesses I Am Not” / Due: Myself & Another paper revised.
Film (in class): Jean-Jaques Annaud (France) The Lover (based on the novel by Marguerite Duras [France, Indochina (Colonial Vietnam)]).
Monday / Wednesday / Friday / FYI’s &
Don’t forget!’s
Week 7 10/18-22 / Family Politics
Readà ERJ 8:
Farida Karodia (South Africa)“The Woman in Green”
Hama Tuma (Ethiopia) “The Waldiba Story”
Farough Faroghzad (Iran) “A Poem for You”
Read: Imaginary Dialogue Paper assignment and Norton ch 23 “Generating Ideas” / Read àERJ 9:
Barry Yourgrau (South Africa, U.S.) “By the Creek”
Hanan al-Shaikh (Lebanon) “A Girl Called Apple”
Larry Levis (US) “Winter Stars” / Due: Imaginary Dialogue Paper Plan
Read: Norton chs. 24, 29 & 30
Film (in class): Saving Face, Alice Wu (US) 2004
Week 8
10/25-29 / World Traveling / Freshman Assembly / Prepare your notebook and portfolio-in-progress for Midterm conferences!
Buy Reading Packet 2 (if you haven’t already)
Read àERJ 10:
Leila Aboulela (Egyptian -Sudanese, UK) “The Museum”
Evan S Connell (US) “The Walls of Avila”
Derek Walcott (Saint Lucia, Afro-Carribean) “The Fortunate Traveller”
Leopold Sedar Senghor (Senegal) “To New York” / Read àERJ 11:
Maria Lugones (Argentina, US) “Playfulness, World Traveling and Loving Perception”
Due: Imaginary Dialogue Paper Draft 1
Week 9 11/1-5 / Mon, Wed & Fri: Midterm Conferences
& Imaginary Dialogue group meetings / Keep reading! Lots due next week!
Due this week:
At conference: midterm notebook and portfolio-in-progress
At ID group meeting(s): Imaginary Dialogue Paper Draft 2 – bring 3 copies (each) of Drafts 1 & 2 (for workshop).
By Friday 1:30: Imaginary Dialogue paper Draft 2 to Cori
By Monday 11/8: workshop notes to Cori / Important: We will not meet as a class this week. I will meet all week with students individually.
Conference times will be assigned – during regular class hours. You should also schedule (with your group) a total of 2 hours for Imaginary Dialogue group meetings (usually during remaining class hours). These are both required. Missing your conference counts as 2 absences. Coming late or unprepared counts as 1 absence. Missing workshop counts as 2 absences. Coming to workshop unprepared counts as 1 absence.
Week 10
11/8-12 / Exile and Diaspora
Read àERJ 12:
Nora Glickmann (Argentina, German-Jewish descent), “The Last Emigrant”
Padma Perera (India) “Dr. Salaam”
Ariel Dorfman (Chile, Argentina) “Vocabulary”
Roque Dalton (El Salvador) “Love Poem” / Read àERJ 13:
Dambudzo Marechera (Zimbabwe) “Thought Tracks in the Snow”
Dahlia Ravikovitch (Israel) “Expulsion From Beirut”
Aleksandra Djaji Horváth (Bosnia/Herzegovina), “First Morning in Exile”
Sujata Bhatt (India, US, Germany) “Search for My Tongue”
Mahmoud Darwish (Palestine) “Sirhan Drinks His Coffee in the Cafeteria” / Film (in class): Ferzan Ozpetek (Turkey, Italy) Hamam (Turkish Bath)
Monday / Wednesday / Friday / FYI’s &
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Week 11
11/15-19 / Lipstick / ß Fri 11/19 is the last day to withdraw from a class
Read àERJ 14:
Gioconda Belli (Nicaragua) “Managua 1979”
Anna Quindlen; (US) “Armed with Only a Neutral Lipstick”
Lisa Suhair Maja (Palestinian-American) “Claims”
Cathy Song (Japanese-Hawaian) “Girl Powdering Her Neck”
In class: Jessica Lagunas (Nicaragua) photographs / Read àERJ 15:
Azadeh Moaveni (US, Iran) excerpts from Lipstick Jihad / Due: Final Imaginary Dialogue paper
Film (in class):
Ma Vie En Rose (My Life in Pink) dir, Alain Berliner, France 1997
Week 12 11/22-26 / Read Manifesto examples (handouts) and Norton ch 40 “Reading Strategies.” Come prepared to talk about
What is a Manifesto and how is one written?
In class: Manifesto Summit (in which we will collaboratively create the Global Artist Manifesto paper assignment). /
Week 13 11/29 – 12/3 / Read: Norton ch 28 “Compiling a Portfolio”
Due: Preliminary Portfolio
In class: Portfolio workshop / War & Militarization
Read à ERJ 16:
Pablo Neruda (Chile) “The Dictators” and “They Receive Instructions Against Chile”
Herberto Padilla (Cuba) “Song of the Juggler”
Virgilio Piñera (Cuba) “The Battle”
William Butler Yeats (Ireland) “Easter 1916”
Paul Celan (German/ Roumanian Jew) “Death Fugue” / Due: Global Artist Manifesto, draft 1
Read àERJ 17:
Hanan Ashrawi (Palestine) “Women and Things” and “Night Patrol”
Yehuda Amichai (Israel) “Tel Gath” and “What Did I Learn in the Wars?”
Week 14
12/6-10 / The Power of Art and Literature / Practice your Creative Presentations!
Due: Creative Presentation Plan
Read àERJ 18:
Nazim Hikmet (Turkey) “Regarding Art”
Wallace Stevens (US) “Of Modern Poetry”
Adrienne Rich “Dream of a Common Language”
Daniel David Moses (Canada) “The Line”
Aya De Leon (USA), “If Women Ran Hip Hop”
Rokia Traoré (Mali) “Koté Don” / Due: final Global Artist Manifesto
In class: Manifesto Reading/Presentations / Due: Final Portfolio
Film (in class):
(Il Postino) The Postman Michael Radford, Italy 1994)
Monday / Wednesday / Friday / FYI’s &
Don’t forget!’s
Week 15 12/13-17 / Creative Presentations / Creative Presentations / Creative Presentations
and class party/potluck.
Bring to share: yummy food, world music, final thoughts, art &/or kudos to the Learning Community. / Have a great winter break!
Companion document: Syllabus
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