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First Week
August 26-28 1998
Course Introduction: Discussion of the class syllabus and the course objectives.
Introduction to the concept of the body as text, to ideas concerning the nature and projection of power, and to the relationship between theories of political colonization and the realities of sexual politics and violent manifestations of power on American college campuses.Sanday, Peggy Reeves. Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus. New York: New York University Press, c1990.
Second Week
August 30, 1998
The construction of and ways of perceiving the Other in early Medieval England: woman as material object and Other as monster in Beowulf.
``Beowulf." Bradley, S.A.J., ed. Anglo-Saxon Poetry. 407-494.
Bynum, Caroline. ``Why All the Fuss About the Body? A Medievalist's Perspective." Critical Inquiry 22.1 (1995): 1-33. [on reserves]
September 2, 1998
The construction of and ways of perceiving the Other in early Medieval England: woman as material object and Other as monster in Beowulf.
``Beowulf." Bradley, S.A.J., ed. Anglo-Saxon Poetry. 407-494.
Foucault, Michel. ``The Body of the Condemned." Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Trans. Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books, 1977. 3-31. [on reserves]
September 4, 1998
The construction of and ways of perceiving the Other in early Medieval England: woman as material object and Other as monster in Beowulf.
``Beowulf." Bradley, S.A.J., ed. Anglo-Saxon Poetry. 407-494.
Scarry, Elaine. "Introduction", and, ``The structure of torture: The conversion of real pain into the fiction of power." The Body in Pain. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. 3-59. [on reserves]
Third Week
September 7, 1998
Discussions concerning the construction of and ways of perceiving the Other in early Medieval England: woman as lesser vessel, the rhetoric of male dominance, power and rape in Chaucer.
``Miller." Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. 78-98.
September 9, 1998
Discussions concerning the construction of and ways of perceiving the Other in early Medieval England: woman as lesser vessel, the rhetoric of male dominance, power and rape in Chaucer. ``Reeve." Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. 98-109.
September 11, 1998
Discussions concerning the construction of and ways of perceiving the Other in early Medieval England: woman as lesser vessel, the rhetoric of male dominance, power and rape in Chaucer.
Deadline to submit your final paper topic.
``Wife of Bath." Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. 219-250.
Fourth Week
September 14-18 1998
The construction of embryonic Western European national identities, and the resonance between such constructions and perceptions of the Other.
The Poem of the Cid: A Bilingual Edition with Parallel Text. Hamilton, Rita, and Janet Perry, eds. New York: Viking Press, 1985. 113-173.[on reserves]
Fifth Week
September 21, 1998
Discussion of mythological models of rape, and the relationship between acts of divine rape and the validation of temporal acts of spiritual, cultural, political, and sexual colonization. Also inverted rape as masculine castration anxiety: the power of woman in the Old English Judith. ``Judith." Bradley, S.A.J., ed. Anglo-Saxon Poetry. 495-504.
September 23, 1998
``Judith." Bradley, S.A.J., ed. Anglo-Saxon Poetry. 495-504.
September 25, 1998
Mythological models
DuBois, Page. ``Field." and ``Furrow." (Part II, Metaphors of the Female Body.) Sowing the Body: Psychoanalysis and Ancient Representations of Women. 39-85
Sixth Week
September 28, 1998
Mythological models
DuBois, Page. ``Stone." (Part II, Metaphors of the Female Body.) Sowing the Body: Psychoanalysis and Ancient Representations of Women. 86-109
September 30, 1998
Mythological models
DuBois, Page. ``Oven." (Part II, Metaphors of the Female Body.) Sowing the Body: Psychoanalysis and Ancient Representations of Women. 110-129
October 2, 1998
Colonialism and allegory: Introduction to the cultural functions of rape and bodies and to medieval conceptions of colonialism. Some sample concepts: the Old English Exodus and divinely mandated migration; the Old English Elene and the relationship between spiritual and political colonization (and the validation of bodily torture through the goal of spiritual transformation); the Old English Andreas, the ethos of conversion, writing the body, and consumption of the Other. ``Exodus." Bradley, S.A.J., ed. Anglo-Saxon Poetry. 49-65.
Seventh Week
October 5, 1998
Colonialism and allegory
``Exodus." Bradley, S.A.J., ed. Anglo-Saxon Poetry. 49-65.
October 7, 1998
Colonialism and allegory
``Andreas." Bradley, S.A.J., ed. Anglo-Saxon Poetry. 110-153.
October 9, 1998
Colonialism and allegory
``Andreas." Bradley, S.A.J., ed. Anglo-Saxon Poetry. 110-153.
Eighth Week
October 12, 1998
READING DAYS...
October 14, 1998
Colonialism and allegory
Deadline to submit responses to midterm examination
``Elene." Bradley, S.A.J., ed. Anglo-Saxon Poetry. 165-197.
October 16, 1998
Colonialism and allegory
``Elene." Bradley, S.A.J., ed. Anglo-Saxon Poetry. 165-197.
Ninth Week
October 19, 1998
Transnational formations and the cultural encounters between Spain and the "New World." Sample concepts: Spain's cultural imaginary at the time of the "New World" conquest; the laying of the land and its relationship to marriage, rape, and the emergence of the novel. The notions of blood, virtue, and marginality.
``La fuerza de la sangre." Exemplary novels. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Warminster, England: Aris & Phillips, 1992. 2: 103-127, 136-137. [on reserves]
Perry, Mary Elizabeth. ``Introduction". Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. 3-13.
October 21, 1998
Transnational formations and the cultural encounters between Spain and the "New World."
DEADLINE TO SUBMIT ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
``La fuerza de la sangre."
Exemplary novels. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Warminster, England: Aris & Phillips, 1992. 2: 103-127, 136-137. [on reserves]
October 23, 1998
Travels: the hero's metaphorical journey to the underground, and the transference of this epic struggle onto the literal colonization of other continents. ``The Breast of Paradise" and other selections from The Discovery of American and Other Myths. [on reserves]
Tenth Week
October 26, 1998
Travels ``The Breast of Paradise" and other selections from The Discovery of American and Other Myths. [on reserves]
October 28, 1998
Travels
``The Breast of Paradise" and other selections from The Discovery of American and Other Myths. [on reserves]
October 30, 1998
Secretions and other tales of exposure: Hernán Cortés meets the "New World." Sample concepts: Translation and how the body of a woman becomes the site of contention about national legitimacy, the order of desire, consumption of the other, and childbearing.Díaz del Castillo, Bernal. "The Expedition of Hernando Cortes: Preparations."; "The Voyage."; "Doña Marina's Story". The Conquest of New Spain. [44-56]
Eleventh Week
November 2, 1998
Secretions and other tales of expousure
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal. "The Expedition of Hernando Cortes: Preparations."; "The Voyage."; "Doña Marina's Story". The Conquest of New Spain. [57-84]
November 4, 1998
Secretions and other tales of expousure
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal. "The Expedition of Hernando Cortes: Preparations."; "The Voyage."; "Doña Marina's Story". The Conquest of New Spain. [85-87; 140-188]
November 6, 1998
Secretions and other tales of expousure
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal. "The Expedition of Hernando Cortes: Preparations."; "The Voyage."; "Doña Marina's Story". The Conquest of New Spain. [245-307; 353-413]
Twelth Week
November 9, 1998
Cannibalism and the Evangelization of America, or the conceptual relationship between the Eucharist and the conquest of the Other. A bloody feast: eroticism, gender, and politics.
Lery, Jean de. History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Otherwise Called America. xv-50.
Lestringant, Frank. ``Introduction;" ``Birth of the Cannibal;" ``Jean de Léry, or the Cannibal Obsession." Cannibals: The Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne. 1-12; 15-22; 68-80. [on reserves]
November 11, 1998
Cannibalism
Lery, Jean de. History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Otherwise Called America. 56-68; 78-85.
November 13, 1998
Cannibalism
Lery, Jean de. History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Otherwise Called America. 122-177; 196-224.
Thirteenth Week
November 16-20, 1998
The invention of a national identity based on the testament of conquest: Explaining the ``origins" from the present.
Paz, Octavio. The Labyrinth of Solitude. 5-212
November 23, 1998
Cinematic Representations of Coercion, Consumption and Colonialism
[DEADLINE TO SUBMIT OUTLINE AND FIRST PAGE OF TERM PAPER]
Fourteenth Week
November 30 to December 4, 1998
Re-openings: the political colonization of the contemporary body. Medieval spiritual models, junta as Ecclesia, and rape with an electrode. Graziano, Frank. "Sacrifice and the Surrogate Victim". Divine Violence: Spectacle, Psychosexuality & Radical Christianity in the Argentine ``Dirty War". 191-227. [on reserves]
December 4, 1998
Conversation with Frank Graziano, author of Divine Violence: Spectacle, Psychosexuality & Radical Christianity in the Argentine ``Dirty War".
December 7, 1998
Last Day of Classes
Recapitulation
Deadline to submit TERM PAPER
December 14, 1998
Deadline to submit answers to Final Exam
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