What good is science fiction’s thinking about the present, the future, and the past? What good is its tendency to warn or to consider alternative ways of thinking and doing? What good is its examination of the possible effects of science and technology, or social organization and political direction?
| Fiction, history, literature |
| 02.17 |
Jane Eyre(Charlotte Brontë) QUIZ & film, directed by Robert Stevenson (1944) |
| 02.24 |
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) |
| 03.03 |
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) |
| 03.10 |
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
- Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. 1979. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth- Century Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale UP.
- Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism.” Critical Inquiry, Vol. 12, No. 1, "Race," Writing, and Difference (Autumn, 1985), pp. 243-261.
- Ciolkowski, Laura E. “Navigating the Wide Sargasso Sea: Colonial History, English Fiction, and British Empire.” Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Autumn, 1997), pp. 339-359.
- Jolley, Susan Arpajian. “Teaching "Wide Sargasso Sea" in New Jersey.” The English Journal, Vol. 94, No. 3 (Jan., 2005), pp. 61-66.
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| 03.17 |
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (1970)
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| 03.24 |
NO CLASS
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| 03.31 |
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (1970)
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| 04.07 |
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (1970)
- Morris, Adalaide. “Dick, Jane, and American Literature: Fighting with Canons.” College English, Vol. 47, No. 5 (Sep., 1985), pp. 467-481.
- Henly, Carolyn P. “Reader-Response Theory as Antidote to Controversy: Teaching "The Bluest Eye".” The English Journal, Vol. 82, No. 3 (Mar., 1993), pp. 14-19.
- Gillan, Jennifer. “Focusing on the Wrong Front: Historical Displacement, the Maginot Line, and "The BluestEye".” African American Review, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Summer, 2002), pp. 283-298.
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| 04.14 |
PRESENTATIONS
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| 04.15 |
Make-up class: PRESENTATIONS
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| Science fiction, social organization, political direction |
| 04.21 |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (1915)
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| 04.28 |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (1915)
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| 05.05 |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (1915)
- Weinbaum, Alys Eve. “Writing Feminist Genealogy: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Racial Nationalism, and the Reproduction of Maternalist Feminism.” Feminist Studies, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Summer, 2001), pp. 271-302.
- Fusco, Katherine. “Systems, Not Men: Producing People in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland.” Studies in the Novel, Volume 41, Numbers 4, Winter 2009, pp. 418-434.
- Lockwood, J. Samaine. “Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Colonial Revival.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Volume 29, Number 1, 2012, pp. 86-114.
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| 05.12 |
Octavia Butler, Kindred (1979)
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| 05.19 |
Octavia Butler, Kindred (1979)
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| 05.26 |
Octavia Butler, Kindred (1979)
- Kenan, Randall. “An Interview with Octavia E. Butler.” Callaloo, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Spring, 1991), pp. 495-504.
- Rowell, Charles H. and Octavia E. Butler. “An Interview with Octavia E. Butler.” Callaloo, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Winter, 1997), pp. 47-66.
- Steinberg, Marc. “Inverting History in Octavia Butler's Postmodern Slave Narrative.” African American Review, Vol. 38, No. 3 (Autumn, 2004), pp. 467-476.
- Schiff, Sarah Eden. “Recovering (from) the Double: Fiction as Historical Revision in Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred.” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory. Volume 65, Number 1, Spring 2009, pp. 107-136.
- Hua Linh U. “Reproducing Time, Reproducing History: Love and Black Feminist Sentimentality in Octavia Butler’s Kindred.” African American Review, Volume 44, Number 3, Fall 2011, pp. 391-407.
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| 06.02 |
PRESENTATIONS
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| 06.03 |
Make-up class: PRESENTATIONS
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| 06.09 |
FINAL EXAM
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