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Summer Session One 2006 (May
15 - June 26)
(There are no upper division courses in
Summer Session Two this year.)
English 180: Genre Studies / The Novella
Professor Harriet Malinowitz
Summer Session One 2006: Tue/Thu 1-4:40 pm
In this course, we will read novellas--works of fiction characterized
by the fact that they are longer than short stories, but briefer
than novels--and consider how and why the novella works as
a prose form. Works by a range of authors will be covered,
and will be selected from among those by Leo Tolstoy, Hermann
Melville, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Gustave Flaubert, Nella
Larsen, Joseph Conrad, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Abraham Cahan,
Doris Lessing, James Joyce, Willa Cather, Richard Wright,
and Tillie Olsen.
English 256: African American Women Poets
Professor Louis Parascandola
Summer Session One 2006: Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu 11:00 am-12:50 pm
This course will study the development of African American
women's poetry over the past fifty years, particularly focusing
on the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and its aftermath.
Authors to be discussed include Gwendolyn Brooks, Ntozake
Shange, Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne
Cortez, Cheryl Clarke, Lucille Clifton, and some younger writers
as well as some Caribbean poets. We will examine the ways
in which the Black Arts Movement intertwined a radical new
theory of black aesthetics with the community's political
struggle for Black rights, women's rights, and lesbian rights.
Several guest poets will visit the class, including Sapphire,
Tish Benson, and Cheryl Boyce Taylor, to read from their work
and discuss their writing techniques. Grades will be based
on participation, short journal assignments, a midterm, and
a final exam. Students will be able to substitute a short
portfolio of their own poetry instead of the final exam if
they wish.
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