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Instructor: John Zuern, UHM Department of English
Fall 2007
M 6:30 - 9:00
Kuykendall 302

Schedule

Monday, August 20
Introduction to the course

Monday, August 27
introduction to research tools

von Humboldt, from On Language

Chamisso, from A Voyage Around the World with the Romanzov Exploring Expedition

Eagleton, "The Rise of English" from Literary Theory

Perloff, "Crisis in the Humanities?: Reconfiguring Literary Study for the Twenty-First Century"

Wendt, Whaitiri, and Sullivan, "Introduction" to Whetu Moana

all poems, Balaz, Banggo, Losch, McDougall, and Ho'omanawanui in Whetu Moana

Monday, September 3
holiday

Monday, September 10
Williams, "Introduction to Keywords" (LCTR 74)

Williams, selections from Keywords (packet)

Aristotle Poetics (Perseus Project, Tufts)

Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus (Perseus Project, Tufts)

Jakobson, "Linguistics and Poetics" (LCTR 335)

Ricoeur, "The Creativity of Language" (LCTR 240)

draft of key concept definitions (posted to the blog)

Monday, September 17

Kanae, Sista Tongue

Wendt, “Tatauing the Postcolonial Body”

Da Pidgin Coup, "Pidgin and Education"

Sakoda and Siegel, "The Origins and Use of Pidgin" (handout)

Fanon, "The Negro and Language" (LCTR 419)

Achebe, "The African Writer and the English Language" (LCTR 427)

Ngugi, "The Language of African Literature" (LCTR 434)

Cox, "Teaching Standard English" (LCTR 478)

Monday, September 24
Class Visit: John Rieder (Literary Studies)

Due: close reading exercise (as attachment)

Monday, October 1
Class Visit: Laura Lyons (Cultural Studies in Asia/Pacific)

Monday, October 8
Class Visit: Erica Clayton and Jeff Carroll (Composition and Rhetoric)

Due: summary and comparison of arguments (as an attachment)

Monday, October 15

Class Visit: Gary Pak (Creative Writing)

Monday, October 22
all poems by Carter, Cruickshank, Glover, Greig, Kamauu, Kauraka, Losch, Pa'u, Sturm, Sullivan, Taylor, Thaman, and Trask in Whetu Moana

Hau'ofa, "Our Sea of Islands" (packet)

Spahr, "Connected Disconnection and Localized Globalism in Pacific Multilingual Literature," boundary 2 31.3 (Fall 2004) available from Project Muse

Bakhtin, "Unitary Language" (LCTR 269)

Brathwaite, "Nation Language" (LCTR 310)

Kachru, "The Alchemy of English" (LCTR 317)

Thursday, October 25
Due: framing your argument in scholarly discourse (as an attachment)

Monday, October 29
Proulx, "Brokeback Mountain" and "Getting Movied" (Brokeback Mountain)

McMurtry, "Adapting Brokeback Mountain" (Brokeback Mountain)

Ossana, "Climbing Brokeback Mountain" (Brokeback Mountain)

Saussure, "The Nature of the Linguistic Sign" (LCTR 21)

Saussure, "Linguistic Value" (LCTR 105)

Barthes, "Myth Today" (LCTR 410)

Spender, "Language and Reality: Who Made the World?" (LCTR 145)

Eng, Halberstam, Muñoz, "What's Queer About Queer Studies Now?" (packet)

Monday, November 5
Bacchilega, "Introduction," from Legendary Hawai'i and the Politics of Place (packet)

Lyons, "A Poetics of Relation," from American Pacificism: Oceania in the U.S. Imagination (packet)

Thursday, November 8
Due: framing your argument in poetic/fictional/public discourse (as an attachment)

Monday, November 12

holiday

Monday, November 19
Aristotle, Rhetoric (Perseus Project, Tufts) (sections 1.1.1 - 1.5.1 and 3.1.1 - 3.3.1)

Woolf, A Room of One's Own (Adelaide e-Books)

Freud, "Slips of the Tongue" (LCTR 127)

Schulz, "The Semantic Derogation of Woman" (LCTR 82)

Butler, "From Parody to Politics" (LCTR 174)

Spillers, "Interstices: A Small Drama of Words" (LCTR 197)

Monday, November 26
Symposium

Monday, December 3
Symposium