Thursday, December 2, 2010

Exam #3: Postcolonial Play-Acting

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Even though this is being assigned early, treat it like a normal final exam: sit down and give yourself 1-2 hours to complete it.   Of cours...
Wednesday, December 1, 2010

For Tomorrow: Gracefully (or not) Wrapping Up the Course

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Instead of reading more of Naipaul's An Area of Darkness, let's end at Chapter 7 and use tomorrow's class to wrap-up some of the...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

For Tuesday: An Area of Darkess, Chs. 6 & 7 (The Medieval City & Pilgrimage)

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  We're rapidly approaching the end of our class and our journey through colonial and postcolonial literature (though we've barely s...
Friday, November 19, 2010

For Tuesday: An Area of Darkness (Chs.3-5)

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Naipaul today, signing a book... Some ideas to consider... * How does Naipaul understand/analyze Gandhi's legacy in India?  Why doe...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

For Thursday: V.S. Naipaul, An Area of Darkness (pp.9-67)

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NOTE: V.S. Naipaul won the Noble Prize in Literature in 2001, and is one of the most famous (and to some, most hated) of "postcolonial...
Monday, November 15, 2010

For Tuesday: Finish Kim if possible!

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Tomorrow will be our last day on Kim.  I want to focus specifically on what happens in the end, how other critics view this, and how we read...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

Paper Assignment: "The Great Game": The Colonial/Postcolonial Audience

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In Reader-Response Criticism, critics often refer to an intended reader that is implied by the narrative voice.   This is a reader who is m...