ENGL 496: Seminar in World Literature

Tentative Spring 2017 Course Schedule

1. Monday, Jan. 9: Intro to the Course
2. Wednesday, Jan. 11

Hill Boone, Writing and Recording Knowledge

Brander Rasmussen, A New World Still in the Making

3. Friday, Jan. 13

Brotherston, Prologue: America as Fourth World

Mignolo, Writing and Recording Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial
Situations

Monday, Jan 16 MLK Holiday No Classes

4. Wednesday, Jan. 18

Tedlock, Introduction
Christenson, Preface,
http://www.mesoweb.com/publications/Christenson/PopolVuh.pdf

5. Friday, Jan. 20

Popol wuj, 50-100,

http://www.mesoweb.com/publications/Christenson/PopolVuh.pdf

6. Monday, Jan. 23

Popol wuj, 100-58

7. Wednesday, Jan. 25

Popol wuj, 159-96

8. Friday, Jan. 27

Popol wuj, 197-247

9. Monday, Jan. 30

10.

Popol wuj, 247-87

Wednesday, Feb. 1

Landa (pdf)

Roys, Introduction,
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8744/732d71e9504bd5d6cc040f4a8b1a5827a55
e.pdf

11.

Friday, Feb. 3

Chilam Balam, chapters: V, VI, IX, XIV, XV,

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8744/732d71e9504bd5d6cc040f4a8b1a58
27a55e.pdf

Cocom Pech in Sing 103-4

Assign Essay #1

12.

Monday, Feb. 6

Cruz, Hell and Hope

Dzul Ek, How the People of Man Paid for Their Sins in 1562 (pdf)

13.

Wednesday, Feb. 8

14.

Friday, Feb. 10

Sna Jtzibajom, When Corn Was Born (pdf)

Laughlin, Theater on the Road and Personal and Social Impacts (pdf)

15.

Monday, Feb. 13

16.

Sna Jtzibajom , Mexico with Us Forever and Deadly Inheritance (pdf)

Wednesday, Feb. 15

Ruiz Gmez (pdf)

17.
Friday, Feb. 17

Sna Jtzibajom, Workers in the Other World (pdf)

Jurez Espinosa, Migration (pdf)

18.
Monday, Feb. 20

Montejo, 11-39
Essay #1 Due
19.
Wednesday, Feb. 22

Montejo, 40-80
20.
Friday, Feb. 24

Montejo, 81-113
21.
Monday, Feb. 27

Mid-Term Exam
22.
Wednesday, March 1

Prez, 9-33
Assign Essay #2
23.
Friday, March 3
Prez, 37-69
Spring Break No Classes: Monday, March 6 Friday, March 10

24.

Monday, March 13

Prez, All
25.
Wednesday, March 15

Silko, 1-29
26.
Friday, March 17---At a Conference (InDigital II on Indigenous
Media)

READ (see Monday, March 27)

27.
Monday, March 20
Rocha Talk
Essay #2 Due
28.
Wednesday, March 22---At a Conference (SECOLAS)

READ (see Monday, March 27)

29.
Friday, March 24---At a Conference (SECOLAS)
READ (see Monday, March 27)
30.
Monday, March 27

Silko, ALL
31.
Wednesday, March 29

Silko, ALL
32.
Friday, March 31

Dupuis and Kacer, I am not a Number

33.
Monday, April 3

Lpez (pdf)
34.
Wednesday, April 5

Bautista (pdf)
35.
Friday, April 7---At a Conference (PAC)
READ
Work on Final Project
36.
Monday, April 10
Xiquin, Weaving Events in Time

Estrada,
https://www.academia.edu/11243885/The_Dis_Articulation_of_Colonial_Leg
acies_in_Calixta_Gabriel_Xiquins_Tejiendo_Los_Sucesos_En_El_Tiempo_weav
ing_Events_in_Time

37.

Wednesday, April 12 No Classes

38.

Friday, April 14 No Classes

39.

Monday April 17

Jamioy in Sing, 106-11

o http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/7692/16/HugoJamioy-Juagibioy
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhAkm_s39fA

40.
41.
42.

Wednesday, April 19
o Chicangana in Sing, 119-27
Friday, April 21

Cuevas Cob (pdf)

Monday, April 24
o
o
o

43.

Chvez in Sing, 128-35

Lienlaf in Sing, 145-9
Maneiro Poyo in Sing, 150-7
Pahdopony in Sing, 158

Wednesday, April 26
Solano in Sing, 159-63
Nelson in Sing, 164-5
Chacin in Sing, 166-70

44.

Friday, April 28
o
o

Kowii in Sing, 171-83

Noori in Sing, 184
Allison Hedge Coke, 283

Final Exam: Wednesday, May 3 @ 8:30

Important Dates:
Residence Halls Open
Friday, January 6
First Day of Classes
Monday, January 9
MLK Day No Classes
Monday, January 16
Fifth Week Grades Due
Monday, February 13
Advising Day No Classes
Tuesday, February 21
Registration Begins
Wednesday, February 22
Spring Break No Classes
Monday Friday, March 6 10
Last Day to drop with a W
Monday, March 13
No Classes
Wednesday Friday, April 12 14
Last Day of Classes
Friday, April 28
Final Exams
Saturday Friday, April 29 May 5
Commencement (graduate)
Friday, May 5
Commencement (undergraduate) Saturday, May 6
All Grades Due by 10:00 am
Monday, May 8