ENGL 386.001/002 Assignments
10/24 - 11/4/05 (Weeks 9-10)
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»»WEEK 8 (10/24-10/28/05)-- I suggest you start reading ahead on Sandra Cisneros' novel The House on Mango Street
for MONDAY October 24
-- MID-TERM EXAM. Bring books/notes. The exam includes two parts: a brief terms/concepts definition section, and a brief essay section.
TUESDAY October 25: The Life of Frida Kahlo showing at the Wicomico Room, Guerreri Centre, 7 p.m. Documentary on the life of Méxican painter Frida Kahlo and her intensely personal, mystical work. This viewing is optional, as is a write-up on this film or the Hollywood one tomorrow night.
for WEDNESDAY October 26
-- Poetry Group #3 Presentation. Meet in Holloway 115. Have read and brought with you to class Joy Harjo's "I Give You Back," Louise Erdrich's "Dear John Wayne," Debra Swallow's "Keep a Dime," and Chrystos' "I Make the Fire."
-- tonight at the Guerreri Centre, 7 p.m. the film Frida on Méxican painter Frida Kahlo, starring Selma Hayek. The Hollywood version of Kahlo's life, richly embued with her imagery.
(THURSDAY October 27, singer Lila Downs performs at 7 p.m. in the Auditorium of Holloway Hall. You heard her music in both films on Frida Khalo. See the online announcement for details.)
for FRIDAY October 28
-- we will finish up any residual discussion of Faces in the Moon.
-- have photocopied and read Judith Ortiz Cofer's essay "Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just met a Girl Named Maria"
»»WEEK 10 (10/17-10/21/05)
 | for MONDAY October 31
-- last week you performed your trick (the mid-term), so here's your treat:
class does not meet today
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for WEDNESDAY November 2
-- fittingly, on the second of the Méxican dias de los Muertos, we begin with Sandra Cisneros' novel The House on Mango Street.
(Here, la Catrina, the symbolic female figure of los Dias de los
Muertos as popularized by Méxican folk artist Posada. She exists
partway between Aztec birth/death goddesses like Coatlicue and Mictecacihuatl, the Méxican-Catholic Virgen de Guadalupe,
and everyday women. Méxicana artist Frida Kahlo was inspired by such
figures, and included a good deal of Dias de los Muertos imagery in her paintings.) [More on los dias de los Muertos here.]
for FRIDAY November 4 -- last day to withdraw from classes with a "W"
-- The House on Mango Street
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