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Jan. 19 - Introduction

24 - Pat Barker,  Ghost Road   ------>Group 1 commentaries due in class
Pat Barker Site
26 - Barker
+ Scenes from Regeneration (film based on vol. 1 of Barker's trilogy)
Sassoon photo; Wilfred Owen's "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young"
------>Group 2 commentaries due in class

31 - Barker (+ excerpts from Ronald Paul,"Regeneration and the First World War" and
from interviews with Barker + map of Melanesia)
The Great War and The Shaping of the 20th Century (PBS)
BBC: World War
Great War Website
WWI: Trenches on the Web
Feb. 2 - Barker   ------>Group 3 commentaries due in class


7 - Sadaat Hasan Manto, "Toba Tekh Singh" (xerox) + Bapsi Sidhwa, Cracking India (1988)
Group 1 commentaries due in class
 

Sidhwa at Emory
Pakistan
Pakistan Virtual Library

9 - Sidhwa + Scenes from Deepha Mehta's Earth 1947 (film based on Cracking India)
14 - Sidhwa-------->Group 2 commentaries due in class
16 - Sidhwa ------>Group 3 commentaries due in class
21 - Toni Morrison, The Song of Solomon  ----------->Group 1 commentaries due in class
23
- Morrison -------->Group 2 commentaries due in class

Annina's Toni Morrison Page
Fly Away - The Great Migration

28 - Morrison  --------->Group 3 commentaries due in class
March 2 - Morrison

7 - Deirdre Madden, One by One in the Darkness ------>Group 1 commentaries due in class

CAIN ( + ARK)

(from 'Peace Line' Mural - West Belfast - Photographer, Martin Melaugh)

 9 - Madden  -------->Group 2 commentaries due in class   
+ Scenes from the films Ormagh and Bloody Sunday

[SPRING BREAK: MARCH 10 - 19]


21 - Madden --------------->Group 3 commentaries due in class
23 - Don DeLillo, Mao II  ---------->Group 1 commentaries due in class
 
     
THE MAO CULT (© Stefan R. Landsberger)
28 - DeLillo ------->Group 2 commentaries due in class/ Guest teacher
30 - DeLillo
DeLillo's America
Apr. 4 - DeLillo ------->Group 3 commentaries due in class
6 - Zakes Mda, The Madonna of Excelsior -----> Group 1 commentaries due in class

11 - Mda         

13 - Complete draft of 8-10 pp. PAPER DUE IN CLASS
Peer Reviews

18 - Mda ------------>Group 2 commentaries due in class
About South Africa
Frans Claerhout (Gallery)

20 - Mda
------------>Group 3 commentaries due in class
25 - Senior Exercise presentations. Revised 8-10 pp. paper due
27- Abstracts and portfolios due.
Oral presentations, based on research papers.

May 2 - Oral presentations, based on research papers.
Do evaluations.


CLASSES END: MAY 3
 
EXAMS: MAY 5 - 10
COMMENCEMENT: May 13

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