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Mary DeShazer, "We Make Freedom," A Poetics of Resistance, pp. 9-49 (Folders or PN1083.R47 D47 1994) Pinsky, "Responsibilities of the Poet," Politics & Poetic Value, ed. Von Hallberg, pp. 7-20. (PN1081 .P65 1987) Audre Lorde, "Diaspora"; June Jordan, "Ghazal at Full Moon"; Janice Gould, "We Exist" (HANDOUT)
TUESDAY SEPT. 7 Milosz, Rescue(1945) in Collected Poems, pp. 23-79 "After the Holocaust&emdash;No Poetry?" Blood to Remember, ed. Fishmann p. 3-11; Milosz, "World," tr. Pinsky & Hass. (HANDOUT) Geoffrey Hartman, "Language and Culture After the Holocaust," The Fateful Question of Culture, 99-128 (PN94 .H344 1997. Milosz, Chapters 1 & 5,The Witness of Poetry, pp. 1-19; 79-97 (PN1081 .M5 1983) VIDEO: Czeslaw Milosz [videorecording]
TUESDAY SEPT. 14 Amiri Baraka, Black Magic (1969) in Transbluency (pp. 117-147) Michael Bibby, "'The Transfiguration of Blackness': The Body in Black Liberation Poetry," Hearst and Minds, pp. 29-77 (PS310.V54 B53 1996) Phillip Brian Harper, "Nationalism and Social Division in Black Arts Poetry of the 1960s," Critical Inquiry19 (Winter 1993): 234-255 (FOLDERS) David Steigerwald, "The Civil Rights Movement," The Sixties & the End of Modern America, pp. 38-68 (E841 .S73 1995) VIDEO: Black Poetry Series in 1960s
WEEK 4: REVOLUTIONARY SUBJECTIVIES TUESDAY SEPT. 21 Adrienne Rich, Dream of a Common Language (1978) & A Wild Patience has Taken Me This Far (1981) in The Fact of a Doorframe(pp. 223-310) Bibby, "'The Territory Colonized': Sitting the Body in Women's Liberation Poetry," Hearts and Minds, pp. 78-122 (PS310.V54 B53 1996) Helen Dennis, "Adrienne Rich: Consciousness raising as poetic method," Contemporary Poetry Meets Modern Theory, ed. Easthope & Thompson, pp. 177-94 (PN1271 .C5951 1991) VIDEO: Adrienne Rich (Lanham Series: PS3535.I233 A4 1992 video)
WEEK 5: DECOLONIZING THE MIND & TONGUE TUESDAY SEPT. 28 Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987) Ngugi wa Thiong'o. "The Language of African Literature," Decolonising the Mind, pp. 4-33 (PL 8010 N48 1986 & folders) Alfred Arteaga, "An Other Tongue," Chicano Poetics, pp.68-90 (PS153.M4 A77 1997) Griswold del Castillo & Arnoldo, "Aztlán Rediscovered: The Chicano Movement," North to Aztlán, pp. 125-147 (E184.M5 G74 1996) VIDEO: Chicano! [videorecording] : history of the Mexican American civil rights movement: Episode 1. Quest for a homeland
TUESDAY OCT. 5 Li-Young Lee, Rose(1986) Peter Sacks, "Interpreting the Genre," The English Elegy, pp. 1-37 (PR509.E4 S23 1985) William Wei, "Who Am I? Creating an Asian American Identity and Culture," The Asian American Movement, pp. 44-71. (E 184 O6 W44 1993) VIDEO: Li-Young Lee (Lanham)
TUESDAY OCT. 12 Elizabeth Alexander (1990), The Venus Hottentot Wendy Rose, "Truganinny," & "Robert" (HANDOUT) Maria Lugones, "Playfulness, 'World'-Traveling, and Loving Perception," Making Face, Making Soul, ed. Gloria Anzaldúa, pp. 390-402. (PS509.F44 M35 1990) Lee Glazer, "Signifying Identity: Art and Race in Romare Bearden's Projections" (FOLDERS) STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: Sander Gilman, "Black Bodies, White Bodies," "Race," Writing & Difference, ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. pp. 223-61 (PN56.R18 R3 1986)
OCT. 16-24 FALL BREAK
TUESDAY OCT. 26 Joy Harjo, In Mad Love and War(1990) Janice Gould, "American Indian Women's Poetry: Strategies of Rage and Hope" (FOLDERS) Mary Arensberg, "Introduction: The American Sublime," The American Sublime, ed. Arensberg, pp. 1-20 (PS 310 S 87 A44 1986 & folders) Article on the American Indian Movement & Indian Aesthetics
TUESDAY NOV. 2 Thom Gunn, (1992) The Man With Night Sweats Susan Sontag, AIDS and its Metaphors (RA644.A25 S66 1989 or RA644.A25 S662 1990) Melissa Zeiger, "Beyond Mourning and Melancholia: AIDS Elegies," Beyond Consolation, pp. 107-34 (PN1389 .Z45 1997) Scott Tucker, "Fighting Words: An Open Letter to Queers and Radicals," The Queer Question, pp. 139-84. (HQ 76.3 U5 T88 1997)
WEEK 10: INTERROGATING DIFFERENCE TUESDAY NOV. 9 Theresa Cha, Dictée(1995) Trinh Minh-ha, "Cotton and Iron," Out There: Marginalization & Contemporary Culture, ed. Russell Ferguson, et. al., pp. 327-36 (NX180.S6 O97 1990) Lisa Lowe, "Unfaithful to the Original," Immigrant Acts pp. 128-53 (PS153.A84 L69 1996)
WEEK 11: HEALING THE WOUNDS: FORM & ELEGIAC RETURN TUESDAY NOV. 16 Sherman Alexie, The Summer of Black Widows(1996) Sherman Alexie, "Introduction to Native American Literature," (HANDOUT) Leslie Marmon Silko, "An Old-Time Indian Attack Conducted in Two Parts." (FOLDERS) Gloria Bird, "Breaking the Silence: Writing as Witness," Speaking for the Generations, ed. Simon Ortiz, pp. 27-48 Ward Churchill, "Encountering the American Holocaust," A Little Matter of Genocide, pp.1-18
WEEK 12: RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CENTER TUESDAY NOV. 23 Carolyn Forché The Angel of History(1994) Robert Hass, "English an Ode" (HANDOUT) Minnie Bruce Pratt, "Identity: Skin Blood Heart" Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991, pp. 27-82 Carolyn Forché, "Introduction," Against Forgetting, 29-47 (PN6101 .A32 1993)
WEEK 13: EDUCATION & RESISTANCE TUESDAY NOV. 30 June Jordan, Poetry for the People(1995) Paulo Freire, "Chapter 1," Pedagogy of the Oppressed, pp. 27-56 (LB 880 F7313 & folders) |
