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Readings

In addition to the required texts used in the course, a listing of the readings and supplemental materials due for each session are outlined below.

Required Texts

Editions of some of the required texts for the course are available via the  Project Gutenberg site. See the link next to each available text.

de Léry, Jean. History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil. Edited and translated by Janet Whatley. U of California Press, 1990.

The Jesuit Relations: Natives and Missionaries in Seventeenth-Century North America. (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) Edited by Allan Greer. Bedford/St. Martin's. (Jesuit Relations online, searchable text)

Shakespeare, William. The Tempest (Oxford World’s Classics). Edited by Stephen Orgel. Oxford University Press. NB: Also contains readings in Montaigne and Strachey (Download from Project Gutenberg site) 

Rowlandson, Mary. Sovereignty and Goodness of God. Edited by Neal Salisbury. Bedford/St. Martin's, 1997.

Seaver, James E. A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison. Univ. of Oklahoma Press. (Download from Project Gutenberg site)

Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe: An Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism. Edited by Michael Shinagel. W.W. Norton & Company. (Download from Project Gutenberg site)

Coetzee, J. M. Foe. Penguin USA, 1988.

Smith, John. General Historie of Virginia. Edited by Philip Barbour. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. (Selections)

Walcott, Derek. Collected Poems 1948-1984. Noonday Press, 1987. (Selections)

Daily Reading Assignments

SES #TOPICSREADINGSSUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS
1Introductions
2Montaigne. "Of the Cannibals." In Orgel, Tempest.
3De Léry. History of a Voyage.Ch. I-II, IV-VI, XIII
4De Léry. History of a Voyage.Ch. XIV-XX, XXII
5Jesuit Relations.Pp. 20-36, 48-75, 78-91
6Jesuit Relations.Pp. 94-106, 137-85
7Screening
8Movie: How Tasty was my little Frenchman...
9"The Strachey Letter" (Orgel, Appendix B). Tempest.Act I sc. i
10Shakespeare. The Tempest.I. ii-II i
11Shakespeare. The Tempest.II. ii-III iii
12Shakespeare. The Tempest.IV i-end
13Smith. Generall Historie.Pp. 136-58 (CP)Reading John Smith (PDF)
14Smith. Generall Historie.Pp. 180-207 (CP)What Happens in Smith (part 2) (PDF)
15ScreeningJohn Rolfe's Letter (PDF)
16Movie: Pocahontas. John Rolfe's Letter (See "Backgrounds.")After Pocahontas (PDF)
17Rowlandson. Sovereignty.Pp. 63-87American Identities; Mary Rowlandson (PDF)
18Rowlandson. Sovereignty.Pp. 87-112
19Jemison. Narrative. Preface and Introduction.Ch. I-VII
20Jemison. Narrative.Ch. VII-XVI.
21Paper Workshop
22Defoe. Crusoe.Pp. 1-71
23Defoe. Crusoe.Pp. 71-140
24Defoe. Crusoe.Pp. 141-208
25Coetzee. Foe.Parts I-II (Pp. 1-113)
26Coetzee. Foe.Parts III-IV (Pp. 114-157)
27Walcott, "The Castaway," "Crusoe's Island," "Crusoe's Journal."Notes on Walcott (1) (PDF)
28Paper Writing
29Walcott, "Ruins of a Great House," "New World," "The Sea is History."Notes on Walcott (2) (PDF)

 








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