Detailed Schedule | Contemporary World Literature in English

Week 1	Aug. 11	1: Introduction to the Course Reading Gregory Jusdanis, "Writing World Literature in English," Arcade: Literature, the Humanities and the World (2011) Sudeep Sen, "New Indian Poetry: The 1990s Perspective," World Literature Today, vol. 60, no. 2 (1994; Chula access)
Week 1	Aug. 13	2: Poetry Reading Olive Senior, "Meditation on Yellow" Louise Bennett "Independence" *"Colonisation in Reverse" (1982)
Week 2	Aug. 18	3: Poetry Reading Amryl Johnson, "Granny in de Market Place" Lorna Goodison, "To Mr William Wordsworth, Distributor of Stamps for Westmoreland" (1995) Olive Senior, "Allspice" (2005) Kei Miller, "Quashie's Verse" (2014)
Week 2	Aug. 20	4: Poetry Reading Imtiaz Dharker "They'll Say, 'She Must Be from Another Country'" "Honour Killing" (2001) Shirley Geok-lin Lim "Burning Gold Paper" "Mother's Shoes" "Pantoun for Chinese Women" Alfian Sa'at "The Marooned Island" *"The Merlion" (1998)
Week 3	Aug. 25	5: Poetry Reading John Agard "Prospero Caliban Cricket" (1993) "Talking to Plants" (2009) "Reporting from the Frontline of the Great Dictionary Disaster" (2006) Felix Mnthali, "The Stranglehold of English Lit." (1961)
Week 3	Aug. 27	6: Poetry Reading Seamus Heaney "Punishment" "Act of Union" (1975) Benjamin Zephaniah "The Sun" "I Have a Scheme" (1996)
Week 4	Sep. 1	7: Poetry Reading *Patience Agbabi, "What Do Women Like Bes'?" (2014)
Week 4	Sep. 3	8: Poetry Reading Daljit Nagra "Booking Khan Singh Kumar" "Kabba Questions the Ontology of Representation, the Catch 22 for 'Black' Writers..."
Week 5	Sep. 8	9: Drama Reading Derek Walcott, Pantomime* (1978) Helen Gilbert, Introduction, Derek Walcott: Pantomime, Postcolonial Plays: An Anthology (2001)
Week 5	Sep. 10	10: Drama Reading Derek Walcott, Pantomime* (1978)
Week 6	Sep. 15	11: Drama Reading Derek Walcott, Pantomime* (1978)
Week 6	Sep. 17	12: Drama Reading Derek Walcott, Pantomime* (1978)
Week 7	Sep. 22	13: Drama Reading Derek Walcott, Pantomime* (1978)
Week 7	Sep. 24	14: Drama Reading Derek Walcott, Pantomime* (1978)
Week 8	Sep. 29	15: Drama Reading Derek Walcott, Pantomime* (1978)
Week 8	Oct. 1	No class (Commencement: October 1–2, 2020)
Week 9	Oct. 6	(Midterm week: October 5–9, 2020) Midterm Examination 1
Week 9	Oct. 8	(Midterm week: October 5–9, 2020) Midterm Examination 2
Week 10	Oct. 13	No class (King Bhumibol Memorial Day observed)
Week 10	Oct. 15	16: Prose Reading Catherine Lim, "Male Child"
Week 11	Oct. 20	17: Prose Reading Ann Ang, "Everybody Uses English"
Week 11	Oct. 22	18: Prose Reading Chinua Achebe, "Girls at War" (17 MB)
Week 12	Oct. 27	19: Prose Reading Abdulrazak Gurnah, "Escort" (14 MB)
Week 12	Oct. 29	20: Prose Reading Petina Gappah, "In the Heart of the Golden Triangle" (10 MB)
Week 13	Nov. 3	21: Novel Reading David Malouf, Remembering Babylon* (1993)
Week 13	Nov. 5	22: Novel Reading David Malouf, Remembering Babylon* (1993)
Week 14	Nov. 10	23: Novel Reading David Malouf, Remembering Babylon* (1993)
Week 14	Nov. 12	24: Novel Reading David Malouf, Remembering Babylon* (1993)
Week 15	Nov. 17	25: Novel Reading David Malouf, Remembering Babylon* (1993)
Week 15	Nov. 19	26: Novel Reading David Malouf, Remembering Babylon* (1993)
Week 16	Nov. 24	27: Novel Reading David Malouf, Remembering Babylon* (1993)
Week 16	Nov. 26	28 Last day of class
Week 17	Dec. 8	Final Exam (1:00–4:00 p.m.)