English 200X World Literature Terry Reilly, Instructor

Office 844 Gruening Phone 474-5180 email

Fall 2012 Office Hours: TR 11:30-2:00 and by appointment

Text: Rubenstein, Roberta and Charles Larson, eds. Worlds of Fiction. 2nd edition Upper

Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2002.

Week 1

30 August Introduction and review course syllabus

4 September Chinua Achebe, (Nigeria) “Girls at War,” 10-20.

6 September Ben Okri. (Nigeria) “In the Shadow of War,” 756-759.

Week 2

11 September Amos Tutuola, (Nigeria) “The Complete Gentleman,” 884-890

13 September Ngugi wa Thiong’o, (Kenya) “A Meeting in the Dark,” 684-693

Week 3

18 September Nadine Gordimer, (South Africa) “Country Lovers,” 331-337.

20 September Ama Ata Aidoo, (Ghana) “Two Sisters,” 21-30.

Week 4

25 September Doris Lessing, (Zimbabwe/England) “The Old Chief Mshlanga,” 473-481.

27 September Es’kia Mphahlele, (South Africa) “Mrs. Plum,” 632-654.

Week 5

2 October Sembene Ousmane, (Senegal) “Black Girl,” 767-776.

4 October Albert Camus, (Algeria/France) “The Guest,” 125-134.

Week 6

9 October Amos Oz, (Israel) “Nomad and Viper,” 777-789.

11 October Ghassan Kanafani, (Palestine) “A Hand in the Grave,” 425-431.

Week 7

16 October Haldan Taner, (Turkey) “To All Eternity,” 878-883.

18 October Bharati Mukherjee, (India/United States) “A Father,” 658-666.

Week 8

23 October Salman Rushdie (India/England) “The Prophet’s Hair,” 814-823.

25 October Niaz Zaman, (Bangladesh) “The Daily Woman,” 960-965.

Week 9

30 October Isabel Allende (Chile) “And of Clay Are We Created,” 46-53.Carmen

Naranjo (Costa Rica) “And We Sold the Rain,” 667-671.

1 November Gabriel Garcia Marquez, (Colombia) “Balthazar’s Marvelous Afternoon,” 278-283.

Maria Theresa Solari(Peru)“Death and Transfiguration of a Teacher,”843-845.

Week 10

6November Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina) “The South,” 108-112. Borges “The Garden

of the Forking Paths,” ERES or handout.

8November Octavio Paz, (Mexico) “The Blue Bouquet,” 790-792.

Christina Peri Rossi (Uraguay/Spain) “Mona Lisa,” 793-796.

Week 11

13November Carlos Fuentes (Mexico) “The Doll Queen,” 267-277..

Rodrigo Rey Rosa, (Guatemala) “The Proof,” 810-813.

15November Feng Jicai (China) “The Street Sweeping Show,” 246-249.Khamsing

Srinawk (Thailand) “The Gold-Legged Frog,” 439-442.

Week 12

20 November Mishima Yukio, (Japan) “Swaddling Clothes,” 588-592.Oba Minako,

(Japan) The Pale Fox,” 706-712

Thanksgiving break is November 21-25

Week 13

27 November Akutagawa Ryunosuke, (Japan) “Within a Grove” 31-36.

29 November Oe Kenzaburo, (Japan) “Aghwee the Sky Monster,” 737-755.

Week 14

4 December Amy Tan, (China/US) “Half and Half,” 868-877.

6 December John Kasaipwalova, (Papua New Guinea) “Betel Nut is Bad Magic for

Airplanes,” 432-438.Catherine Lin, (Singapore) “Or Else, the Lightning

God,” 482-490.

Final papers due.

The last day of class is 6 May. Exams are the week of May 11-15.

Grades and Policies, etc…

1). Read the works, come to class, and talk about the works.

2). At the beginning of each class, there will be a quiz. Each quiz is worth ten (10) points

(although extra credit will occasionally be possible). There will be a total of 28 quizzes. If

you arrive late or leave early, quizzes will not count. Quizzes cannot be made up.

3). THERE ARE NO PAPERS TO WRITE, unless you are not doing well and want to do

one or more (up to three) for extra credit, or if you want to finish the class early.

4). For even more extra credit, you can do one (1) 5-10 minute class presentation having

something to do with the country or region we are studying at the time (politics,

geography, food preparation, religion, etc.). You can do these individually or in groups.

Here’s how it works out:

Total points 310

Quizzes 280 (28 @10 each, plus possible extra credit points)

Papers up to 30 points each

Class presentation up to 20 points

Class Participation up to 30 points

You need the following point totals for these grades:

A > 280

B > 250

C > 220

D > 190