Additional Readings:
Week Two
Read: Books One and Two of Confessions of St. Augustine
Also: "The Pleasures of Opium" and "The Pains of Opium".
Week Five - Down and Out in Paris and London AND "How the Poor Die."
Week Six - Read: How the Other Half Lives Swift's A Modest Proposal
Week Seven - Family Day - No class
Week Eight - Library Research Methods and READ: Orwell's "Politics and the English Language"
Week Nine - The Things I Cannot Change by Tanya Ballantyne
Week Eleven - "Shooting an Elephant" and "A Hanging" (both by Orwell)
Week Thirteen - If You Love This Planet by Terre Nash.
Seminar Schedule (to be revised in class)
January 17 - Nick will introduce Confessions of St Augustine to the class and Lance will do the same for Confessions of an Opium Eater.
January 24 - Ashley will introduce My Bondage and My Freedom to the class.
January 31 - For our reference.
February 7 - Sean will speak to the class about Down and Out in Paris and London and Trevor will tackle "How the Poor Die."
February 14 - Nigel will tell us How the Other Half Lives.
February 28 - Jay will speak to us about "Politics and the English Language."
March 7 - Mary Jane will introduce The Things I Cannot Change.
March 14 - Isabel will introduce Books One and Two of Gulliver's Travels.
March 21 - Gina will present on Books Three and Four of Gulliver's Travels and Sasheen will examine "Shooting an Elephant."
Marhc 28 - Sherin will present on Silent Spring.
April 4 - Victoria will speak to us about If You Love This Planet.
Additional readings for those interested in narrative structure and memory:
Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson.
Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life Writing by James Olney.
Additional Readings for students interested in Travel Writing.
Read: Shipping Out
Also: Taras Grescoe's The End of Elsewhere available at the Toronto Public Library.
Orwell: A Life In Pictures
Down and Out
Mr. White
Snell
Class
Epistemic Privilege
Cultural Drag
Long Lance
John Howard Griffin
Barbara Ehrenreich
White Like Me
For more on Down and Out in Paris and London, this is an excellent discussion.
Mountain Eagle
Greek Children in Gotham Court
In the Home of an Italian rag-picker, Jersey Street.
The Official Organ of Chinatown
Street Arabs
Didn't Live Nowhere
Muybridge
More Muybridge
Marey
More Marey
Lumiere Brothers
More Lumiere Brothers
Thomas Edison
In the Land of the Head Hunters
Nanook of the North
Moana
Olympia
Youth rally
Grey Gardens
49Up
An American Family
Shooting and Elephant and A Hanging
East?
East?
East?
East?
A very good bar if you happen to be in San Francisco.
Said on Orientalism.
The Sheltering Sky
A Room With a View
Silent Spring
Monday, January 10, 2011
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