Reading

2016-17

First term	Readings/Topics	Tutorial/Assignments
Week 1: 9/16	Course Introduction	No tutorial this week
Week 2: 9/23	Allen Ginsberg, “Supermarket in California” Don DeLillo, White Noise (Waves and Radiation 1-105)	No tutorial this week
Week 3: 9/30	DeLillo, White Noise (The Airborne Toxic Event, first part of Dylarama, 107-223)	White Noise
Week 4: 10/7	DeLillo, White Noise (224 to end) Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies	White Noise; Close Reading Skills
Week 5: 10/14	Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies	Interpreter of Maladies
Week 6: 10/21	Toni Morrison, Beloved *Please do not read preface, because it reveals the novel’s “surprise”* (1-99, stop at “It was time to lay it all down”)	Interpreter of Maladies; In-class analysis
Week 7: 10/28	Morrison, Beloved (100-195, stop at beginning of part II)	Beloved
Week 8: 11/4	Morrison, Beloved (200-324, stop at end of novel)	Making an Argument
Week 9: 11/11	Tony Kushner, Angels in America, Part I	Beloved
Week 10: 11/18	Kushner, Angels in America	Angels in America; Paper #1 due
Week 11: 11/25	Kushner, Angels in America, Part II	Angels in America
Week 12: 12/2	Thammavongsa, Light	Light

Second term

Week 1: 1/6	Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	No tutorial
Week 2: 1/13	Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	Improving upon your first paper
Week 3: 1/20	David Chariandy, Soucouyant	Oscar Wao
Week 4: 1/27	Chariandy, Soucouyant David Chariandy visit	Oscar Wao
Week 5: 2/3	Barker, Hanratty, Leuchter and Mand, The Speedy	Soucouyant; Paper #2 due
Week 6: 2/10	Barker et al., The Speedy Mona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl	The Speedy
Week 7: 2/17	Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl Mona Awad visit	13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
Week 8: 2/24	Reading week Note: February 21 is the last day to drop/change to Credit/No Credit
Week 9: 3/3	George Saunders, Tenth of December	No tutorial
Week 10: 3/10	Saunders, Tenth of December Zadie Smith, “The Embassy of Cambodia”	Tenth of December
Week 11: 3/17	Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close	Embassy of Cambodia; Paper #3 due
Week 12: 3/24	Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close	Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; Exam Strategies
Week 13: 3/31	Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Course conclusion Note: deadline for late withdrawal at registrar is April 5	Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close