Gender & Sexuality in Early America English341, Spring 1998 Professor Laura Arnold WEEK 1

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PLEASE NOTE: THIS PAGE IS NOT BEING UPDATED LINKS MAY BE BROKEN! Week 1: Gender and the Work of Discovery M 1/26 Introduction Article: Andrew Delbanco, "Reading for Pleasure" (Reader) Useful Terms in Feminist and Queer Theory (Reader)   W 1/28 Possessing New Bodies: Unpacking the Metaphors of Discovery Texts: Columbus's Letters (Norton 8-13; Reader) Vespucci, from Mundus Novus  (Reader) Artwork & Maps (On-line & Slides in class) Articles: Margarita Zamora, "Gender & Discovery"(Reading Columbus, folders on reserve) Web Assignment: Images of Columbus and the "Discovery" of America: J. van der Straet: "The Discovery of America" (with commentary and Columbus text) Landing of Columbus at the Island of Guanahani, West Indes, October 12th, 1492 (John Vanderlyn, 1847) Discovery of America by Luigi Persico and Rescue by Horatio Greenough Sebastiano del Piombo: "Portrait of Columbus" The Columbus Doors: Mythmaking in the U.S. Capitol Theodore de Bry: Woodcuts of America Theodore de Bry: Engravings of America   F 1/30 Dangerous Others and Bodily Corruptions Texts: Columbus, Diary on Cannibals (Reader) Cortés, excerpts on the Amazons from the "Fourth Letter" (Reader) Cortés, letters (Norton 19-23) Articles (please read at least one of the following): Peter Hulme, "Columbus and the Cannibals" (Colonial Encounters F1619.3.G68 H85 1986: pages 13-44) Alison Taufer, "The Only Good Amazon....' (Playing With Gender, ed. Brink, Horowitz, and Condert 35-51: PN721 .P55 1991 & folders) In-class: slides Functions of Hermaphrodites (de Bry)   RETURN TO MAINPAGE for ENGLISH 341