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Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 16:38:16 -0500
From: Heather DuBois Bourenane <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Summer Reading Group Calendar

Hello everyone,

Please find below the schedule of readings for 
the African Literature Summer Reading Group for 
the rest of the summer.  We hope you'll join us - 
either regularly or off & on - to discuss any of 
the texts or issues below that you find 
interesting.  Newcomers, friends, students and 
faculty from all departments and off-campus are 
always welcome.  The regular meeting time will be 
Wednesday evenings, 7:30 pm at Steep & Brew on 
State Street.  Please feel free to attend even if 
you've only read some (or none) of the readings 
on the schedule.

If you would like to receive weekly reminders and 
updates/changes to the schedule, or for more 
information, please contact Heather DuBois 
Bourenane ([log in to unmask] or 224-1065).

Hope to see you there!

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African Literature Summer Reading Group 2004 - Calendar

Meeting time: Wednesdays, 7:30 pm, Steep & Brew café, State Street

June 2
Nuruddin Farah

June 9
Translation and Language issues in African 
literature.  We'll be looking specifically at the 
Swahili-to-English poetry of Shaban Roberts and 
Algerian White by Assia Djebar

June 16
Ayi Kwei Armah (esp. The Beautyful Ones Are Not 
Yet Born, Fragments, Healers &  2000 Seasons)

June 23
Examining Prison Literature: esp. Soyinka (The 
Man Died), Ngugi (Detained), Abdellatif Laabi 
(Rue du Retour), Nawal El Sadaawi (Memoirs from 
theWomen's Prison)

June 30
Caribbean literature, part I: George Lamming 
(esp. The Pleasures of Exile and In the Castle of 
My Skin) and Kamau Brathwaite (esp. The History 
of the Voice)

July 7
Graceland by Chris Abani

July 14
Magical Realisms and Experimental fiction (case 
study: Nalo Hopkinson, Midnight Robber)

July 21
Critical Theory: Ato Quayson's Calibrations (or 
sections thereof) and articles tba

July 28
Revisiting Issues in South African Literature: 
selected readings Bessie Head (Maru), Mark 
Mathabane (Kaffir Boy and Miriam's Song), Alan 
Paton (Cry the Beloved Country), Miriam Tlali 
(Muriel at Metropolitan), Zoe Wicomb (David's 
Story)

August 4
Caribbean literature, part II: Michelle Cliff, 
Jamaica Kincaid (esp. The Autobiography of My 
Mother) and Erna Brodber (Louisiana)

August 11
Current Issues in African Philosophy (articles tba)

August 18
Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari

August 25
Readings for the October Towards an Africa 
Without Borders conference: Sonia Sanchez (esp. 
Under a Soprano Sky), others tba

September 1
film night (location and films tba)
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