Tentative Spring 2019 Course Schedule

1. Monday, Jan. 14
 Introduction to the Course
2. Wednesday, Jan. 16 “Is There a Globe?”

3. Friday, Jan. 18 “Is There a Global Literature?”
 https://nplusonemag.com/issue-17/the-intellectual-situation/world-lite/
 http://mason.gmu.edu/~ayadav/Goethe%20on%20World%20Literature.pdf
 https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/engl-218-fall2010/files/Goethes-World-Literature-Paradigm-
and-Contempor.pdf
 Social Media Share Essay #1
Monday, Jan. 21 – MLK Holiday - No Class

4. Wednesday, Jan. 23 Unit 1: The Economics of it All

 Marx, Karl, “The Communist Manifesto” (in Dropbox)
5. Friday, Jan. 25
 Roy, 1-48
 Social Media Share Essay #2
6. Monday, Jan. 28
 Wallerstein, 1-40
7. Wednesday, Jan. 30
 Wallerstein, 41-90
8. Friday, Feb. 1
 Malina, “The Global Market…” https://www.asymptotejournal.com/nonfiction/hubert-matiuwaa-
the-global-market-in-the-mountains-of-guerrero/
 Social Media Share Essay #3
9. Monday, Feb. 4
 Wallerstein, all
 Assign Essay #1
10. Wednesday, Feb. 6 Unit 2: Perspectives on Global Phenomena
 Conrad, Bio, 55-8
 Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 61-88
11. Friday, Feb. 8
 Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 88-115
 Social Media Share Essay #4
12. Monday, Feb. 11
 Omar Ibn Said:
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/community/text3/religionomaribnsaid.pdf
 http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/omarsaid/summary.html
13. Wednesday, Feb. 13
 Achebe, “The African Writer…,” 850-855
 Achebe, Things Fall Apart, 768-800
14. Friday, Feb. 15
 Achebe, Things Fall Apart, 800-825
15. Monday, Feb. 18
 Achebe, all
 Essay # 1 Due
16. Wednesday, Feb. 20
  Ngugi, “The Language of African Literature,” 855-62
 Achebe, “Image of Africa,” (In Dropbox)
 Social Media Essay #5
17. Friday, Feb. 22: Professor at a Conference
 ¿?

18. Monday, Feb. 25
 Workshop on Conrad/Achebe
19. Wednesday, Feb. 27

20. Friday, Mar. 1

21. Monday, Mar. 4

22. Wednesday, Mar. 6
 Midterm
23. Friday, Mar. 8
 ¿?

March 11 – March 15 – Spring Break – No Classes

24. Monday, Mar. 18 Unit 3: Resistance and Decolonization

 Fanon, from Wretched of the Earth (in Dropbox)
 Assign Essay #2
25. Wednesday, Mar. 20
 “Indigenous Cultures in the 20th Century,” 692
 Gunn Allen, 669-72
 Erdrich, 685
26. Friday, Mar. 22 (Last day for “W”)
 Momaday, from The Way to Rainy Mountain, 679-84
 Social Media Share Essay #7
27. Monday, Mar. 25
 Tonalmeyotl, “The Train,” https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2017/12/05/translation-
tuesday-the-train-by-martin-tonalmeyotl/
 “Bananaland”
28. Wednesday, Mar. 27: Professor in Oaxaca, México
 ¿?

29. Friday, Mar. 29: Professor in Oaxaca, México
 ¿?

30. Monday, Apr. 1
 NoDapl https://www.truthdig.com/articles/nodapl-and-the-water-protector-movement/
 Wood, “At Standing Rock” https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2017/may/standing-rock-
karenne-wood
 Dineyazhi, “Water is Life” https://lithub.com/water-is-life-a-poem-for-the-standing-rock/
31. Wednesday, Apr. 3
 Tolokonnikova, 1-40
32. Friday, Apr. 5
  Tolokonnikova, 41-94
 Social Media Share Essay #8
33. Monday, Apr. 8
 Tolokonnikova, 95-140
34. Wednesday, Apr. 10
 Tolokonnikova, 141-208
35. Friday, Apr. 12
 Tolokonnikova, all
 Social Media Share Essay #9
 Essay #2 Due
36. Monday, Apr. 15
 Roy, from The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/27/arundhati-roy-the-ministry-of-utmost-happiness-
exclusive-extract
 Roy, “I’d rather no be Anna,” 49-56
Wednesday, Apr. 17 – Friday, April 19: No Classes

37. Monday, Apr. 22

 Roy, Interview, https://truthout.org/video/arundhati-roy-on-fiction-in-the-face-of-rising-fascism/
 Roy, “Dead Men Talking,” 57-66
38. Wednesday, Apr. 24 :
 Roy, all
39. Friday, Apr. 26
 Ayotzinapa https://nationalpost.com/news/world/how-do-43-students-just-vanish-into-thin-air-a-
look-at-the-ayotzinapa-case-that-has-long-haunted-mexico
 Malina, “Earthen Skin” https://www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/hubert-matiuwaa-earthen-
skin/
40. Monday, Apr. 29
 La Guajira
 Local https://www.crossroadschronicle.com/news/mau-way-ahead-mcmahan-campaign-
fundraising
 Global
https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2015/04/drummond_sues_those_claiming_c.html
 Siosi, “I Never Heard the Birds” http://www.latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/en/2018/august/i-
never-heard-birds-again-vicenta-siosi
41. Wednesday, May 1
 Interventions
42. Thursday, May 2 Final Projects Night @ MadStone
43. Friday, May 3
 Final Reflections
Final Exam: Wednesday May 7 @ 3:00

Important Dates:

Residence Halls Open Friday, Jan 11, 2019

First Day of Classes Monday, Jan. 14, 2019
Census Date Monday, Jan. 28, 2019
Martin Luther King Holiday Monday, Jan. 21, 2019
Fifth Week Grades Due
Advising Day – No Classes
First 8 Weeks Ends
Spring Break – No Classes
Last Day to drop with a “W”
Last Day of Classes
Final Exams
Commencement (graduate)
Commencement (undergraduate)
All Grades Due by 10:00 am
Monday, Feb. 18, 2019
Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019
Friday, March 8, 2019
Monday – Friday, March 11-15, 2019
Friday, March 22, 2019
Friday, May 3, 2019
Saturday, May 4 – Friday, May 10, 2019
Friday, May 10, 2019

Saturday, May 11, 2019

Monday, May 13, 2019